On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:48:47PM -0500, John Dennis wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:53 -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > > I'd be interested in knowing if anybody is successfully using Mailman > > under User Mode Linux and what sort of specs this requires. I am trying > > it with 64MB RAM and have memory errors, but I'm also running Apache and > > Dovecot for IMAP mail. httpd and python seem to use the most memory. > > That's running on Fedora Core 2. > > > > FAQ 1.24: > > In theory, Mailman should work on any hardware/operating system that > > fully supports the current version of Python (e.g., 2.3), and includes > > compatible web and mail servers. This does include virtual machine > > configurations. > > I believe you're assumption is correct, mailman should run fine in a > virtual machine. When you say you're getting memory errors I assume you > meant you've exhausted virtual memory and swap space in your VM, if > that's correct I don't think there is much you can do aside from improve > your VM. I don't personally have any experience with UML but I can tell > you that virtualization is getting a lot of attention here of late and > the preferred technology is Xen, not UML, info on Xen can be found here: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen
Yes, it's a memory problem that has happened twice now and requires a restart of the VPS. I believe the first culprit was an Apache module, Mod_survey, doing a data export; the second, Namazu indexing some Mailman archives. I think you're right, I'll have to add more RAM, but I was hoping not to spend the extra $10/month ;) Tech support believes Mailman is the problem because it was the only thing showing memory use from ps -aux. Are you aware of any hosting providers that use Xen? Thanks for the info, Todd ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/
