[Mailman-Users] extreme memory use by Mailman

[Dan Mick]

Ron Brogden wrote:

> Howdy.   I look after a busy mailing list server which is currently running
> version 2.1b4 of Mailman.  The sever has only just been under regular load
> the last couple of days as we were switching servers.  I've been keeping an
> eye on things and noticed that the load was up a little bit and thought I
> would see what top had to show me.
>
> 68084 mailman    2   0   107M   103M poll   160:54  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68085 mailman    2   0  8172K  5556K poll     4:02  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68089 mailman    2   0  8456K  5544K poll     2:16  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68087 mailman    2   0  7984K  5104K poll     1:14  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68090 mailman    2   0  8204K  5044K poll     1:09  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68086 mailman    2   0  8768K  5188K poll     0:51  0.00%  0.00% python
> 68088 mailman    2   0  5932K  1508K poll     0:48  0.00%  0.00% python


I'll bet 68084 is the ArchiveRunner.

Known bug, fixed in CVS and in 2.1b5.  You'll need to fix your archives, 
the databases of which have probably grown to 10x normal size, using
bin/b4b5-archfix, if that's what's affecting you.