[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

[Barry A. Warsaw]

[about occasionally exhausting file descriptors...]

>>>>> "JWB" == John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net> writes:

    JWB> We haven't moved to either Mailman 2.1 or Exim 4 (on the
    JWB> Mailman machine) yet.

    JWB> But...we are seeing a Python-based web dynamic page server
    JWB> (not Zope...in-house) leaving open files behind with a fairly
    JWB> new Python.

    JWB> We've temporized by having a monitor which does a suitable
    JWB> lsof and counts the relevant open files...killing and
    JWB> restarting that server when the count reaches 1000.

    JWB> I'll pass along to the (really sharp) guy who is working on
    JWB> that problem that you're seeing something at least vaguely
    JWB> similar.  We've been operating on the theory that the problem
    JWB> is in our code, but...perhaps not?

Possibly not, although I don't recall seeing anything on the Python
lists about it.  I'm running Mailman (both 2.0.10 and 2.1b2) on Python
2.1.2.  I should probably upgrade to 2.1.3.  However I never saw the
problem until we upgraded to Exim 4.  OTOH, we also turned on
SpamAssassin full-bore about the same time, so there are lots of
variables in this equation <wink>.

I haven't seen the problem in at least a week, so who knows?  We're
certainly catching lots of spam!  Greg Ward should be back online any
time now, so he probably won't have time to look at this until he
catches up (he's our Exim guru).

-Barry