[Mailman-Users] Mailman Sending Out Duplicates!

[Jon Carnes]

The memory requirements are dependent on the size of the messages going
out.  Generally, if you are hitting swap during normal or lite use then
you need to increase the physical RAM. 

RAM is cheap these days - hopefully you will have no problems filling up
your server.

Good Luck.

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:44, Jonathan Chum wrote:
> Just curious, is there any expected memory size for certain sized lists to
> go by? What is the recommended amount of RAM for something like this which
> is blasted once a week?
> 
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> Jonathan Chum
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> Wow.  Memory is the problem.  Yes, add more memory.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:52, Jonathan Chum wrote:
> > I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, however Mailman is sending
> > duplicates up to 12x for a client of ours. I reviewed the dmesg.today log
> > file and notice it ran out SWAP space. The machine is a PIII 850 with 128
> MB
> > RAM and 512 of SWAP space.
> >
> > There are two lists that are blasted out. . . one list that's 72,500
> > subscribers and another list of 37,300 subscribers.
> >
> > The problem usually occurs when the 72,500 subscribers are blasted out. We
> > did not have this problem when the client started with 50K subscribers and
> > the previous administrator tweaked Sendmail and Mailman.
> >
> > I would think Mailman working as a robust list server should have
> mechanisms
> > to prevent duplicate emails. Reviewing the ps -auxww when the SWAP space
> ran
> > out, it looked like a few Mailman processes was sucking up all the memory.
> >
> > Any ideas to fix tihs issue? Is memory the problem? I was thinking of
> > slapping in more memory into the machine.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonathan Chum
> > Systems Developer
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