[Mailman-Users] Timeout Problems with Large Mailing list Part II

Sat Oct 9 16:45:42 CEST 1999

Hi!

At 11:15 AM 10/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Oct 1999 11:59:44 -0400
>Robert  <Robert at grapevine2.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm serious....we want to add roughly 20-40,000 new Email
> > addresses to existing 30,000 Email addresses mailing list.
>
>Not a problem.  There are a few timeout and response time problems
>when using the web interface for adding large numbers of
>subscribers.  These *may* have been fixed now (I haven't checked,
>but there was discussion on the area).
>
>More simply however you can use the commandline bin/add_members
>script.  I've successfully run this on files containing as many as
>5,000 addresses (that's how they were provided to me).
>
> > I'm seriously considering using this new mailing list manager:
> > Subscribe Me Professional by Elite's CGI Script Center at
> > http://www.cgiscriptcenter.com/ for $149.00 Any comments on this
> > one compared to Mailman? The only nice thing about this Subscribe
> > Me Professional is their support forum, which the real
> > knowledgeable people will answer any good questions.
>
>MailMan is a free software product.  Support is of course on a best
>effort basis, and perhaps more significantly, on an "as willing"
>basis.

It still timeouts when adding the large Email addresses to the mailing 
list. Also, when the Mailman is running (processing 35,000 Email addresses 
2 times), we could not access to the web site:

http://deafdigest.net/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi/deafdigest_web

Bug in Mailman version 1.0rc3
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of 
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 84, in run_main
     from Mailman.Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 18, in ?
     from Logger import Logger
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 22, in ?
     from Mailman.Utils import reraise
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 33, in ?
     import random
   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/random.py", line 18, in ?
     from whrandom import random, uniform, randint, choice # Also for export!
ImportError: No module named whrandom

Environment variables:
VariableValue
DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/barry
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate
REMOTE_HOST madmax.deafdigest.net
SERVER_PORT 80
PATH_TRANSLATED /home/berry/deafdigest_web
REMOTE_ADDR 207.138.154.38
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_NAME www.deafdigest.net
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, 
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-quickviewplus, 
*/*
REQUEST_URI /mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi/deafdigest_web
PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/robert/bin
QUERY_STRING
SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/berry/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi
PATH_INFO /deafdigest_web
HTTP_HOST deafdigest.net
REQUEST_METHOD GET
SERVER_SIGNATURE        Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.deafdigest.net Port 80
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN webmaster at deafdigest.net
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) PHP/4.0B2
PYTHONPATH /home/mailman
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
REMOTE_PORT 3130

Same for here when accessing to admin.cgi:

http://deafdigest.net/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi/deafdigest_web

Bug in Mailman version 1.0rc3
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of 
this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what 
happened. Thanks!
Traceback:

Traceback (innermost last):
   File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 108, in run_main
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 28, in ?
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 40, in ?
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 28, in ?
   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py", line 165, in ?
   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/pickle.py", line 29, in ?
ImportError: No module named copy_reg

Environment variables:
VariableValue
DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/barry
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate
REMOTE_HOST madmax.deafdigest.net
SERVER_PORT 80
PATH_TRANSLATED /home/berry/deafdigest_web
REMOTE_ADDR 207.138.154.38
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_NAME www.deafdigest.net
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, 
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-quickviewplus, 
*/*
REQUEST_URI /mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi/deafdigest_web
PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/python/bin
QUERY_STRING
SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/berry/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi
PATH_INFO /deafdigest_web
HTTP_HOST deafdigest.net
REQUEST_METHOD GET
SERVER_SIGNATURE        Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.deafdigest.net Port 80
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN webmaster at deafdigest.net
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) PHP/4.0B2
PYTHONPATH /home/mailman
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
REMOTE_PORT 3129

Server status at this time when running 35,000 Email addresses in 2 
messages to be sent out at the same time:

[root at madmax berry]# uptime
  10:43am  up 4 days,  3:18,  1 user,  load average: 2.97, 2.24, 1.66

[root at madmax berry]# free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        156484     152312       4172     116796       5048      14704
-/+ buffers/cache:     132560      23924
Swap:       240932     112368     128564
[root at madmax berry]#

Server: 350MHz AMD, 160Mb, 1Mb cache

What's wrong?

Thanks,

Robert