[Mailman-Users] Long delay before delivering

[Edwin Ringersma]

On 31 Oct 2001 at 10:12, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:43:28 +0100 
> Edwin Ringersma <edwin at introweb.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I'm experiencing long delays between actual delivery to mailman
> > wrapper and the delivery to the mailboxes of the subscribed users.
> 
> How long?
Minutes. Can take 20 minutes.
> 
> > Crontab is installed as suggested. so qrunner every minute,
> > gate_news every 5 minutes.  
> 
> First guesses are:
> 
>   -- a poorly configured MTA (especially sendmail)
? it's sendmail, does the job.
>   -- a high percentage of bad/slow MXes
Seen this. Mail stays in the mailqueue. Not always the case.
>   -- no local cacheing nameserver and a very slow external nameserver
Not the problem

I've noticed qrunner hanging and using cpu-cycles. Killing it, and removing 
lockfiles put the mails that where waiting through immediately (when qrunner was 
called by crontab).
I guess qrunners hanging is the problem. What causes this I don't know.
> 
> -- 
> J C Lawrence
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