Earlier this morning the partition containing our mailman install (including archives) filled up. We were alerted to this by error messages being returned when trying to send emails. We cleared up some disk space, but did not restart mailman. Users no longer got the error message when posting to a list, so I figured all was well, and moved on to other tasks.
A couple hours ago, a list member alerted me that the lists didn't seem to be sending out any mail. I checked the folder of what is normally a 75-100 message a day list and saw that no messages had been sent since the disk space issue. I restarted mailman, but it seems that the posts sent since the disk space issue was cleared up are going out very slowly. This is to be expected somewhat, but I was wondering if there was anything I could do to accelerate the process. Currently, qfiles/out has 158 .pck files. When I restarted mailman an hour ago, it was at 161. Assuming that mailman processes .pck files chronologically, it appears that only 15 messages have come into qfiles/out in the last hour, while 18 have gone out. Like I said, is there any way to expedite the out queue? Many of my qfiles directories have 0-length pck.tmp files: - qfiles/in has 398 0-length pck.tmp files (168 from today) - qfiles/bounces has 342 0-length pck.tmp files - qfiles/commands has 178 0-length pck.tmp files Is it ok to remove these? If so, is there a special way to remove them, like bin/discard for heldmsgs? I assume these 0-length files were created when the disk ran out of space. Also, qfiles/shunt currently has 11081 pickle files in it. I examined a few of them at random, and they all appear to be spam - some go back as far as 2006. Is there a proper way to clear out my qfiles/shunt directory as well? I did, of course, run unshunt, which temporarily cleared out the directory, but then repopulated it again after adding a few MB to the end of my mailman/logs/error file. I imagine I can just rm the 0-length files without issue, but manually removing .pck files from the data directory in the past has caused me headaches, so I wanted to make sure. Anything else mailman-related I should take into consideration after running out of disk space? cheers w ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
