Mark, Thanks the cron/checkdbs script had not been added to the crontab. Running that script resulted in list1's config.pck shrinking to just 40K.
Cheers, Mike On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Mike Cherry wrote: >> >> In looking at the dumpdb txt I see the issue is with the >> hold_and_cmd_autoresponses. The size of the file does not correlate with >> the number of subscribers rather the amount of spam the list recieves. >> >> list 1; config.pck size 16M, 1.2M hold_and_cmd_autoresponses addresses, 113 >> subscribers >> >> list 2; config.pck size 13M, 1.0M hold_and_cmd_autoresponses addresses, 584 >> subscribers >> >> list 3; config.pck size 1.1M, 80K hold_and_cmd_autoresponses addresses, 62 >> subscribers >> >> >> I'm assuming that 1.2 million addresses in hold_and_cmd_autoresponses might >> be keeping the file large? I am assuming that my problem is with the size >> of the file as lists with smaller config.pck files release locks quicker and >> the web admin interface starts much much faster. >> >> In Defaults.pk I have MAX_AUTORESPONSES_PER_DAY = 10. > > > Your assumptions are more or less correct, but is cron/checkdbs > running? It should be deleting all but the current day's > hold_and_cmd_autoresponses entries from every config.pck every time it > runs. > > If you're getting spam to a list from a million addresses a day, you > really do have a spam problem :( > > So I'm guessing that cron/checkdbs is not running or something is going > wrong with that process. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/H4Cj> > which may be relevant. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
