[Mailman-Users] Strange Load Problems with Mailman

[Norbert Bollow]

Has this been figured out yet?

BTW, Geoffrey what'd the exact Mailman version that you're running?
(you mention both 2.1b1 and 2.1b2) ?

What is this Mailman process doing?  (Have you tried strace?)

Geoffrey Kleinman <talk at dvdtalk.com> wrote:

> Also I've just installed Mailman (2.1b1) an imported all my members. But
> when I do a general
> 'listinfo' via the web python goes crazy and consumes almost
> 100% of my dual processor system. The page also loads VERY SLOW.
> 
> Here's the info from TOP:
> 
>   4:12pm  up 1 day, 18:08,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 0.74, 0.66
> 235 processes: 225 sleeping, 6 running, 4 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 41.9% user, 27.8% system,  8.3% nice, 21.8% idle
> Mem:  2061788K av, 1752960K used,  308828K free,       0K shrd,   20144K
> buff
> Swap:  417680K av,       0K used,  417680K free                 1304284K
> cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
> 11681 nobody    15   0 86908  84M  1080 R       0 97.0  4.2   0:15 python
> 
> We are running Mailman 2.1b2 and Python 2.1.3 on Redhat 6.2 w/ kernel 2.4.17
> (SMP)
> 
> Our lists are pretty big - 290K total but the individual list pages (for the
> smaller lists:
> http://mailman.kleinman.com/listinfo/rce ) load very quickly
> 
> We have yet to do a test mailing to our lists and wanted to make sure
> everything is set, optimized and working before we see if Mailman/Qmail can
> send to a 80K list.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> - Geoff
> 
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