Chance Eppinette wrote: > >I am running Mailman 2.1.5 on a Solaris 2.8 SUN 280R (fully loaded). > >I have a number of lists but 1 in particular is giving me problems. The >list currently has about 14000 members of which about 1100 are disabled due >to bounces. >The problem seems to arise when a message is sent to the list (around every >2-3 weeks). > >The CPU time for a python process jumps up to around 50% for an indetermined >amount of time (> 24 hours).
Which python process (i.e. presumably one of the qrunners, but which one) >While the system is "working" on this list message, GUI access to the list >is nearly impossible (can't login); while other lists seem to function OK. The list is probably locked. >Up to this point I have had to stop/kill all Mailman processes and then >restart Mailman several times to bring things back to normal with the List >service. >The intended message being sent to the list does arrive in users mailboxes >(which are worldwide). > >I believe the culprit to be a combination of managing the number of bounces >due to the size of the list membership. This doesn't seem likely. >Also, we prefer that once a member has been disabled for 3 bounces, that it >also be unsubscribed from the list. This does seem to occur, but it seems >to take forever to occur. Like I said there are about 1100 addresses >disabled right now. However, they have yet to be removed. It is like the >system is waiting on something else to occur, but I don't know what. It's waiting n weeks for the n weekly warning messages to be sent where n is the bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings setting. It seems you want this to be 0. You might be interested in seeing what's in Mailman's bounce log. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
