For some reason our Mailman installation has gotten very slow. One email distro took about 17 hours according to the user. There is data flow as I can see by running the "mmdsr" stat script. I googled and found something about qfiles can grow too large but don't have any in my /var/lib/mailman directory. I also went through a checklist I found online to tell if Mailman was hung and didn't see anything that this matched.
The version of Mailman we are running is: mailman-2.1.9-4.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga). Also bouncing mailman "appears" to make it run faster for a short while when looking at the maillog but I could be imaging things. I saw some of these errors from the mmdsr script: mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/virgin/1285535430.9693439+c15f2ea8cc51d4a0768ac9501e2 cb46604bca247.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/in/1285358418.500119+88f4ebd1cd94a4b61b2422cf92d196b8 e30b7c3d.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/in/1285358403.1655681+02fde9a4b5b52413bbf130b5591edc8 55b3697b4.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357860.2852571+261eec64e3bbc89300e941420b db7bbbbc63024d.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357858.8509741+1978e52ebf4961eae874fd3298 3473ec5b928a92.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357851.4396069+6c0356985765abcdb511eaf973 a1a08af2f411eb.bak mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: /var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357851.2718539+65d7680e2649c275aff5be0bf4 d447732180726a.bak It appears those files do not exist now. The Hourly summary of Posts, Post count by List, and Post Count by Sender is in the low thousands or hundreds. I bounced Mailman multiple times as well as bouncing postfix thinking the system was hung before investigating the stats. I'm going to go home now as I've been fighting this all day but will check back later. Any help is truly appreciated, Troy ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
