[Mailman-Developers] .nfs* lock files

[Melissa G. Ng]

I have innumerable files in the "locks" directory with the prefix ".nfs".  There are several of these every minute of every day.

I think it may be related to a problem I have regarding the cgi script "listinfo".  When I try to invoke "<mailman-server>/mailman/listinfo" I get 

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Traceback:


Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/user/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
    main()
  File "../Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 40, in main
    FormatListinfoOverview()
  File "../Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 88, in FormatListinfoOverview
    l = MailList.MailList(n, lock = 0)
  File "/user/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/user/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 812, in Load
    dict = marshal.load(file)
MemoryError: 





Environment variables:

 Variable
                       Value
 DOCUMENT_ROOT 
                       /usr/apache/htdocs 
 SERVER_ADDR 
                       163.181.40.6 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 
                       gzip 
 SERVER_PORT 
                       80 
 REMOTE_ADDR 
                       163.181.232.166 
 SERVER_SOFTWARE 
                       Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) 
 GATEWAY_INTERFACE 
                       CGI/1.1 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
                       en 
 REMOTE_PORT 
                       50107 
 SERVER_NAME 
                       super 
 TZ 
                       US/Central 
 HTTP_USER_AGENT 
                       Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) 
 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET 
                       iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 
 HTTP_ACCEPT 
                       image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* 
 REQUEST_URI 
                       /mailman/listinfo 
 PATH 
                       /usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/etc:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/etc:/usr/bin/X11://bin:.:/usr/openwin/bin:/apps/lsf/SOLARIS/bin
 QUERY_STRING 
 SERVER_PROTOCOL 
                       HTTP/1.0 
 HTTP_HOST 
                       super 
 REQUEST_METHOD 
                       GET 
 SERVER_SIGNATURE 
                       Apache/1.3.12 Server at super Port 80
 SCRIPT_NAME 
                       /mailman/listinfo 
 SERVER_ADMIN 
                       thanhn.tran@amd.com 
 SCRIPT_FILENAME 
                       /user/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo 
 PYTHONPATH 
                       /user/mailman 
 HTTP_CONNECTION 
                       Keep-Alive 

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But when I invoke the individual lists's "listinfo" page, it comes back fine.

Could someone please help me out with this problem?


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Melissa G. Ng
Systems Engineer
512.602.4111