[Mailman-Users] sgsave = cPickle.dumps(_msg, 1): MemoryError: out of memory

[Steve Mertz]

Does anyone else have any ideas on how to solve this issue?

Thanks,
-- Steve

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 12:59, Steve Mertz wrote:
> If you read my message, you will see that it's cPickle.dumps() that is
> causing the memory error.  Sending large emails (10+M) through just
> sendmail works fine. 
> 
> The problem is with Mailman here....
> 
> On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 12:49, Sullivan, John wrote:
> > It sounds like a problem with Send Mail. I'm not to familiar with the
> > tweaking of sendmail maybe try posting it on their mailing lists. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Mertz [mailto:steve at openspirit.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:52 PM
> > To: Sullivan, John
> > Cc: Mailman-Users at python.org
> > Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] sgsave = cPickle.dumps(_msg, 1): MemoryError:
> > out of memory
> > 
> > There is one user on the list. Myself.  I set this up for testing before
> > implementing (good thing I did!)
> > 
> > -- Steve
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 12:43, Sullivan, John wrote:
> > > How many users are on your list? 
> > > 
> > > I believe there's an option to lower the number of recipients that get
> > > spooled at a time - I think default is 500 maybe you want to drop that
> > down
> > > to 50 or 100 and work you way up from there until you find a working
> > > threshold. 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Mertz [mailto:steve at openspirit.com] 
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:44 PM
> > > To: Mailman-Users at python.org
> > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] sgsave = cPickle.dumps(_msg, 1): MemoryError: out
> > > of memory
> > > 
> > > When trying to send a large message (5M or larger) to a Mailman list, it
> > > seems to puke due to lack of memory:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > marcos:mailman {106} 
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? main()
> > > File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 230, in main qrunner.run()
> > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 59, in run
> > > filecnt = self._oneloop()
> > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
> > > self._shunt.enqueue(msg, msgdata)
> > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 91, in
> > > enqueue 
> > > msgsave = cPickle.dumps(_msg, 1)
> > > MemoryError: out of memory 
> > > 
> > > I am running on OpenBSD 3.1, with 512M ram.  Mailman 2.1.1.
> > > 
> > > Running the mailman account with csh and here are the limits:
> > > marcos:mailman {102} limit
> > > cputime         unlimited
> > > filesize        unlimited
> > > datasize        65536 kbytes
> > > stacksize       4096 kbytes
> > > coredumpsize    unlimited
> > > memoryuse       481368 kbytes
> > > memorylocked    160456 kbytes
> > > maxproc         128 
> > > openfiles       64 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any ideas? 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Steve Mertz
> > > System Administrator
> > > 
> > > OpenSpirit Corporation
> > > 77 Sugar Creek Centre Blvd, Suite 550
> > > Sugar Land, TX     77478
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> > Steve Mertz
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> > 
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> Steve Mertz
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Steve Mertz
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