List processing capacity (was Re: Community Feedback: Turning off monthly IETF mailing list password reminder emails)

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 11/2/2013 5:19 PM, Chris Griffiths wrote:
> Due to an ever increasing community size as well as new mailing lists being added to the mailman servers over time, we see a large amount of mail at the beginning of every month that is causing some delays to email delivery during this time period in order to send out mass email subscription and password reminders to the community.


Chris,

Independent of whether reminders should default to off, your note ought 
to raise a question about IETF-run list operations processing capacity.

The monthly reminder's capacity load is the same as having every mailing 
list get one posting (and yes, probably at the same time.)

No matter what size our mailing lists are or how many we run, by current 
measures of common Internet email volume, the aggregate load for the 
IETF would normally be considered pretty small.  Perhaps some tens of 
thousands of messages.

If our current system configuration can't handle that easily, it 
probably  needs to get fixed.  (There was supposed to be an IAOC effort 
to move towards a more scalable operation, but I believe that stalled.)

d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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