[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1b3 qrunner performance (backlog)

[Andrew D. Clark]

I recently upgraded from mailman 2.0.12 to 2.1b3 and am quite pleased with the new qrunner setup (among other things). We have one particularly high volume list with very bursty postings (since the main poster is scripting postings). In mailman 2.0.12 we'd often have hundreds of files stuck in the qfiles directory, sometimes for hours. Now, postings go through much more quickly. However, archiving still lags quite a bit, and that qrunner has _very_ long run times:

mailman 5476 93.5 2.7 32188 31388 ?? R 4:18PM 115:01.18 qrunner /home/services/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s (python)

I'm pretty sure lag in archiving is what was causing the whole thing to back up in 2.0.12. So, although the backlog is now mostly isolated to archiving (a very good thing) I'm looking for a solution to fix that. Not archiving is not an option. Should forking more ArchRunners help with this, or will this just cause more contention?

My platform is FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE on a 700mhz PIII with 1GB RAM, running mailman 2.1b3 with Exim 4.05.

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Andrew Clark
Campus Network Programmer
Office of Information Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (805) 893-5311

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