[Mailman-Users] locks, max cpu, postfix, qrunner ugliness

[Morgan Fletcher]

Morgan Fletcher <morgan at hahaha.org> writes:

> I just used bin/add_members to build out the ~1800 members of our mailing
> list.
>
> Now, python (2.0) is wedging itself everytime it's launched:
>
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE     TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>  4246 mailman   57    0    24M   23M run       8:22 98.44% 98.44% python

I meant to write that qrunner is wedging itself.

> I'm running Mailman 2.0.8 on Python 2.0, NetBSD 1.5.1,
> Postfix-20010228-pl03, machine is beefy.
>
> I think our list is hitting some sort of postfix limitation, but I'm not
> sure what it is. 
>
> If I HUP the qrunner process, delete its two lock files, I can re-launch it
> and some mail will be delivered, but then the qrunner process will wedge
> itself again. I've got qrunner commented out in mailman's crontab until I
> can figure this out.

I also should have written that of the 1800 or so subscribed address, I
think as many as 400 may be dead and bouncing.

Morgan
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