"Echlin, Michael" wrote:
> Much the same as I got this message before I got Larry's.
> (I hate it when I get the answer before the question Don't you, makes me
> wonder what the H they are talking about. I wonder if Anthony is psychic?
That would be because of the way mailman handles its queue. As Chuq
explained it to me:
"Here's why: qrunner doesn't process the queue FIFO.
Instead, it opens up the directory and processes the
entries sequentially. This implies that if you get a
lot of stuff in the queue, qrunner will quit after
15 minutes and start over.
As qrunner processes stuff, it deletes those files. So
as new stuff comes in, they get stored as close to the
start of the directory inode as possible, so when
qrunner quits and restarts, if it hasn't processed
everything in the directory, it starts over with newer
stuff, leaving older stuff deep into the inode -- and
it'll never GET to that stuff deep in the inode until
the system quiets down and it's given a change to catch
up. That means something could literally stay in the
queue forever if the system never slows down enough to
allow qrunner to clean up."
Now of course, that whole explanation is invalid IF the folks at gnu.org
changed the qrunner's lifetime
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