[Mailman-Developers] qrunner -- problem with huge mail messages

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:42:56 +0200 
Dirko van Schalkwyk <dvschalk@ing.sun.ac.za> wrote:

> I made some time measurements :

> 1 236 202 bytes took 2 minutes to process 4 053 188 bytes took 19
> minutes to process

> I this normal? Am I missing some option that I can turn of.  What
> is qrunner doing all this time?

Are you swapping?

Aside: Qrunner is written in Python and operates by loading the
entire subject message into memory before processing.  This also may
be at the core of the problem.  

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