These lists vary from 10 users to 150 and there are not dead addresses as they have been running for over 6 months clean, then the problem crops up where the qrunner justs starts messing up. I have over 100 lists on my servers and only about six that are causing problems.
At 3:59 PM -0800 2/22/02, Morgan Fletcher wrote: >Thomas Hillson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The first involves qrunner, what happens is that a list gets locked and no >> mail will go through it. > >Tom, when I first moved my 1800-member list to mailman, it had upwards of >200 dead addresses. Those 200 dead addresses caused a lot of bounces, and >for some reason the bounces seemed to reach critical mass, wedging the CPU >and causing qrunner to abend. Qrunner was in cron, subsequent qrunner >attempts started stacking up in the locks directory. First thing I did was >to comment the qrunner cron job. > >I sent email to all 1800 addresses with a script: "I am getting ready to >change the list, here's the status." (et cetera) I got back about 250 >bounces, and I removed those addresses with bin/remove_members. Then I >carefully deleted all the bounces from the qfiles directory, one *.msg/*.db >pair at a time. I made sure no qrunner or other mailman processes were >running, cleaned out all the locks and ran qrunner. It's been humming along >at one-minute intervals since with no problems. List is ~1620 addresses, >about 100 messages a day, none larger than 30kb. > >Morgan > > >------------------------------------------------------ >Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users -- --Tom /--------------------------------------------------------- | Tom Hillson Computer Services Manager | [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Agriculture | http://www.ag.iastate.edu Iowa State University | (515) 294-1543 phone B2 Curtiss Hall | (515) 294-1349 fax Ames, IA 50011 >--------------------------------------------------------- |"The only thing I have too much of is too little time" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
