On 31 Oct 2001 at 10:12, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:43:28 +0100 > Edwin Ringersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm experiencing long delays between actual delivery to mailman > > wrapper and the delivery to the mailboxes of the subscribed users. > > How long? Minutes. Can take 20 minutes. > > > Crontab is installed as suggested. so qrunner every minute, > > gate_news every 5 minutes. > > First guesses are: > > -- a poorly configured MTA (especially sendmail) ? it's sendmail, does the job. > -- a high percentage of bad/slow MXes Seen this. Mail stays in the mailqueue. Not always the case. > -- no local cacheing nameserver and a very slow external nameserver Not the problem
I've noticed qrunner hanging and using cpu-cycles. Killing it, and removing lockfiles put the mails that where waiting through immediately (when qrunner was called by crontab). I guess qrunners hanging is the problem. What causes this I don't know. > > -- > J C Lawrence > ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? > http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
