[Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates

[Jonathan Chum]

I noticed that Apache died during the night over during this period and
rummaging through some log files, I've picked up this:

pid 32821 (sendmail), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
Oct  9 00:05:23 custsvr1 /kernel: pid 32821 (sendmail), uid 0, was killed:
out of swap space
swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Oct  9 00:25:17 custsvr1 sendmail[37992]: g993CjL36495: SYSERR(root): Can't
create transcript file ./xfg993CjL36495: File ex
ists
Oct  9 00:57:55 custsvr1 sendmail[37992]: g993EGL36589: queueup: cannot
create ./tfg993EGL36589, uid=0: File exists
Oct  9 01:11:35 custsvr1 sendmail[38256]: g9931DL35920: queueup: cannot
create ./tfg9931DL35920, uid=0: File exists
Oct  9 01:49:01 custsvr1 sendmail[38256]: g993APL36303: SYSERR(root): Can't
create transcript file ./xfg993APL36303: File ex
ists

This log was in the dmesg.today in the /var/log directory.

Exactly what does "swap_pager_getswapspace: failed" mean? I'm assuming that
there was enough swap space, so Mailman died and reattempted to try again,
yet loosing it's place as to what users did receive the newsletter, and
resent the letter again.

Mailman was setup as a 1 way delivery system, that is, only 1 admin sends
the newsletter, and everyone on the list receives a copy of it.

Currently this is what top looks like this morning at 8:00 AM EST:

last pid: 61450;  load averages:  0.55,  0.18,  0.08
up 49+15:23:38  08:12:57
40 processes:  1 running, 39 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
Mem: 15M Active, 13M Inact, 44M Wired, 2288K Cache, 22M Buf, 48M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 17M Used, 495M Free, 3% Inuse

Any ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Chait [mailto:davidc at bonair.stanford.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:14 PM
To: jchum at aismedia.com
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates


John,
    Switch your MTA on to a debug setting and watch the conversation go
through, that should score some type of information.

-David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Chum" <jchum at aismedia.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates


> I hate quoting myself, but I'm a bit frustrated with Mailman at the
moment.
> I've checked the logs/smtp just to make sure I was giving qrunner enough
> time. Did some research on the archives of python and was not able to
> determine what other possible causes.
>
> The message ID was the exact ID in all 3 messages I received in my test
> account. The time stamp was also the same on when the message was sent.
>
> I'm not sure if the MTA duplicated or Mailman duplicated the message. Any
> ideas?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Chum
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:52 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email 3x
>
>
> Mailman on the last email l sent out mailed users 3 copies of the email to
> the entire list. I'm not why this started happening as we haven't changed
> any settings, and I'm not sure where to start as to why this email was
sent
> out over a period of 3 days.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions on what could be happening? I'm using it with
> Sendmail if that helps.
>
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Chum
> Systems Developer
>
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