We are having problems with mailman needing to be restarted to complete sending email to our lists. The problem has been getting worse over time and is now almost a daily requirement. I spent some time debugging this morning and found some issues.
I used top to look at the number of active processes that are owned by user mailman. I found 35 processes including 14 command "mailmanctl". This looks like it might be the source (at least one of them) to our problems. Mailman is currently delivering email to our users after a restart. I would like to clear this up without rebooting our server. Please give me some input on a plan to clean this up. Here is a start: - wait for the need for mailman to be low -- we send email three times per day to newsletters & and have no forums/blogs - service mailman stop - delete all processes running under mailman - ?? should I clear lock files or other actions ?? - service mailman start - verify the proper number of process are running -- ?? there should be eight processes ?? I would also like input on additional debug techniques to find the root cause of this issue. Thanks, Greg ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
