[Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Graham TerMarsch wrote:

> I'm finding, though, that the WWW processes are regularly creating stale
> locks that sit around and hold everything up.
>
> Any and all information, tips, pointers, or suggestions are welcome.

    I have a perl script run every 15 minutes and check for lock files.  Any
lock file older than 10 minutes gets forcibly removed (by the script).  This
way my admins don't have to wait till I come around to manually delete them.
Keeping in mind that the default timeout for a webserver is generally 5
minutes, the 10 minutes wait period works out great.

    AMK4

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