----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:38 PM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem > > > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:22:06 -0500 > > Eric Schmitz wrote: > > > > > Go to the mailman/data directory, and delete all > > > heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files. Then go to your admindb page. You'll > > > > > > probably still see the listing of all the thousands of held messages. > > > Click "submit all data", and they should disappear. > > > > > > *Use at your own risk*! This feels like something of a hack to me, > > > > > > but you seem a little desperate. ;-) > > > > > > -Eric Schmitz > > > > With 2.1.5 there's a "Discard all messages marked Defer" checkbox. I use > > that, followed by the "Submit All Data" button. Seems that's all that's > > needed. > > Thanks, David, Eric, and Brad. > > My problem is that this page *never* appears. It doesn't seem to time out > either, at over 20 minutes. The Python process keeps getting bigger until it > is using about 200M of RAM, then it fluctuates by 5 or 10M. And while it is > running you can't open another window on any admin activity on that list. > And some people thought I was overspecifiying by getting 1GB or RAM in that > server! <grin> > > I'm going to start it up again, and see if it finishes after 2 or three > hours, or times out. The page timed after about 15 minutes, and the python process disappeared. So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I had to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too long" message bit me. And now I tried again and it timed out again after another 15 minutes. What next? Robert ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
