I just put a new machine online running Trustix Linux 1.2, etc. etc. and Mailman 2.0.3-J. Now I'm trying to add 250 users to a mailing list via the admin Web page but I'm having some trouble. I tried pasting all 250 addresses into the form at once (one to a line, Windows Netscape 4.75) but that didn't work. So I started doing 10 at a time, and that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I have top running (top -q -d 2) and I can see that sometimes when I press the submit button python fires up only once and leaves the Web browser hanging. I'm also keeping an eye on /home/mailman/locks/ and I see that sometimes it's creating lock files, sometimes not. A few times I've had to clear out the locks directory to get it working again. When it does work, I see in top that user nobody runs python, mailman runs python and postfix is doing its thing. (and I did renice -5 -u python ; renice -5 -g python, but I can't tell if it's helping.) My questions are: Why isn't it working every time? Why does python sometimes crap out instead of process the addresses? There doesn't seem to be a network problem between my laptop and the server. Is there a less painful way to add lots and lots of users to a list at once? On a 300 MHz i586, how many addresses should I be able to subscribe at a time? A batch of 20 takes a lot longer than I'd expect it to. Thanks, Rich ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
