Just curious, is there any expected memory size for certain sized lists to go by? What is the recommended amount of RAM for something like this which is blasted once a week?
Regards, Jonathan Chum Systems Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A I S M e d i a , I n c . "We Build eBusinesses" 115 Perimeter Center Terrace Suite 540 Atlanta, GA 30346 Tel: 800.784.0919, Ext 502 / Fax: 678.382.2471 http://www.aismedia.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Carnes Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Sending Out Duplicates! Wow. Memory is the problem. Yes, add more memory. On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:52, Jonathan Chum wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, however Mailman is sending > duplicates up to 12x for a client of ours. I reviewed the dmesg.today log > file and notice it ran out SWAP space. The machine is a PIII 850 with 128 MB > RAM and 512 of SWAP space. > > There are two lists that are blasted out. . . one list that's 72,500 > subscribers and another list of 37,300 subscribers. > > The problem usually occurs when the 72,500 subscribers are blasted out. We > did not have this problem when the client started with 50K subscribers and > the previous administrator tweaked Sendmail and Mailman. > > I would think Mailman working as a robust list server should have mechanisms > to prevent duplicate emails. Reviewing the ps -auxww when the SWAP space ran > out, it looked like a few Mailman processes was sucking up all the memory. > > Any ideas to fix tihs issue? Is memory the problem? I was thinking of > slapping in more memory into the machine. > > > Regards, > Jonathan Chum > Systems Developer > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > A I S M e d i a , I n c . > "We Build eBusinesses" > 115 Perimeter Center Terrace > Suite 540 > Atlanta, GA 30346 > Tel: 800.784.0919, Ext 502 / Fax: 678.382.2471 > http://www.aismedia.com / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jchum%40aismedia.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
