I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD.
When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to a very
small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server aborts processing
with the error
MemoryError : out of memory
After talking on the Mailman list, the
Barry just answered on Mailman list saying that the memory fault may
be in Python for that matter
Thanks for forwarding that mail.
If it's a python problem I'm probably in big trouble, but since I can't
find evidence of other having the same problem with such small attachments
(and as
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote:
I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD.
When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to
a very
small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server aborts processing
with the error
MemoryError
On Feb 5, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Lachlan Michael wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote:
I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD.
When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to
a very
small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server
Lachlan Michael wrote:
# su mailman
This account is currently not available.
I'm not sure about the syntax but limits -U mailman doesn't seem to make
the user mailman, but just use the class default.
su -m mailman
will do what you want.
Ah, thanks! That's a much better way to do
How big does the mailman process actually get? top will tell you.
Mailman values don't budge. None of the mailman processes go over about
8.5M, which is what they are during idle time.
Real puzzler. I'm surprised not to have at least one process growing,
though. Maybe it's not using much
