[Mailman-Users] qrunner keeps locking cron

[Greg Schnippel]

Thanks, Jon. I checked the file sizes in the archive
directory but they seem to be rather insignificant. The
list that is causing the problems has 6000+ users 
but they only mail 2-3 times a month. 

Do you think the size of the list is what is causing
qrunner and then cron to lock up? I'm sure mailman
can handle large lists and it has always been able
to handle this list before.. Not sure why it would 
freeze when processing it now

Thanks,

Greg Schnippel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at haht.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:31 PM
> To: Greg Schnippel; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner keeps locking cron
> 
> 
> Are your volumes filing up (do a "df")?  How big are your 
> archives?  If they
> have grown very large, then it will take awhile to put each 
> new message into
> the archive.  This can slow you down quite a bit.
> 
> Jon Carnes
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Schnippel" <gschnippel at forumone.com>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:00 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] qrunner keeps locking cron
> 
> 
> >
> > I've been having a lot of trouble with mailman and
> > cron recently and I'm wondering if anyone else has
> > experienced this or has any ideas..?
> >
> > We have several large lists on our server and they
> > have run without problem for a couple of years now.
> > However, recently it seems that qrunner is locking
> > up when it tries to process the queue and in the
> > process, it stalls the cron daemon as well.
> >
> > The only thing we have been able to do is monitor
> > cron, detect when its not working, kill and restart
> > the cron process, and then manually run the mailman
> > qrunner program. Definitely not optimal.
> >
> > There are no errors being reported in either the mailman
> > error logs or in the smtp logs.. ??
> >
> > Anyone had any problems with qrunner or cron with
> > mailman?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Greg Schnippel
> >
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