[Mailman-Developers] First big Mailing

[Marc Perkel]

Version 2.08

Dan Mick wrote:

> What version?
>
> > I'm doing my first big mailing with Mailman/Exim to deliver effector for the
> > Electronic Frontier Foundation. The list is about 20,000 names.
> >
> > Anyhow - started out moving right along, maybe too well - saturated the T1
> > pretty quick and the system slowed down. But the email logs were really going
> > fast. This went on for about 45 minutes.
> >
> > During this time I saw a number of errors. Messages indicating the I had too
> > many files open (running tail on the exim logs). A few messages that looked
> > like something couldn't open something.db or something like that.
> >
> > Then .....
> >
> > The delivery slowed down as it it were done. System load dropped back to low
> > normal levels. This lasted a while - then things started back up again really
> > delivering messages. These deliveries come in spurts.
> >
> > Anyhow - even though Exim is delivering other email. Messages sent to mailman
> > are getting "stuck". It's as if nothing in mailman is working. I see messages
> > being sent to mailman. But mailman isn't responding. I don't know if something
> > is holding these messages and this is waiting in some queue - or if Mailman
> > has crashed and is eating messages - or someing is corrupt or locked or
> > overloaded or what.
> >
> > Anyhow - I'd like some general feedback on what might be happening. The
> > newsletter contains an important story about Norway inditing Jon Johansen
> > criminally. He's the guy who wrote the DVD code.
> >
> > Anyhow - the future of the planet is at stake here - so I'd like to know this
> > is going to work and what I need to do to fine tune the system.
> >
> > Marc Perkel
> > /root
> > EFF
> >
> >
> >
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