[Mailman-Developers] gate_news crashed my machine

[Scott]

the fix is to add os._exit(0) to the line right after file.close()
like so:


    # Save after every newsgroup... should probably save after every post.
    # Reason being, want to make sure in case of a system crash or something,
    # The same messages don't get gated multiple times.
    file = open(os.path.join(mm_cfg.DATA_DIR, "gate_watermarks"), "w")
    marshal.dump(watermarks, file)
    file.close()
    os._exit(0)

sorry 'bout that one.

You may want to just comment out the cron job if you don't do any new
gatewaying. 

I've never seen a load of 180 before.  highest i've seen is about 130,
that was sendmail's fault.  i guess mailman gets the prize most
potentially abusive to the system's load.

needless to say, this fix is in the current cvs sources.

scott

On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
| Hello!
| 
| I just upgraded to 1.0b6, everything worked fine, except for this little
| thing... pushed the load up to >180, nothing worked after... :(
| So, exactly what is the fix for gate_news ? Don't tell me to buy a faster
| machine :)
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Greg
| 
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