[Mailman-Users] Mailman using up lots of RAM

[NOW Website Coordinator]

We just created a list that we compiled from other lists, and I've sent one 
message to it, and our Sun Netra X1 with 512 meg RAM is having a very tough 
time.  What really concerns me when I do a "top" is how much RAM the 
various mailman processes are taking up right now:

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
    533 mailman    4  59    0   68M   65M sleep   51:17  0.00% python
    522 mailman    4  59    0   70M   67M sleep   40:23  0.00% python
    529 mailman    4  59    0   71M   69M sleep   35:13  0.00% python
    521 mailman    4  58    0   66M   12M sleep    1:26  0.00% python
    524 mailman    4  59    0   19M 1728K sleep    0:04  0.00% python
    517 mailman    3  52    0 5816K  360K sleep    0:00  0.00% mailmanctl
    527 mailman    4  59    0 6904K 1552K sleep    0:00  0.00% python
    519 mailman    4  59    0 6864K 1552K sleep    0:00  0.00% python


Should they be taking up around 70 meg each?  Is this normal, or is there 
something I can do to help this?

Our Solaris machine was not responding several times today after I sent the 
message last night.  Other things were definitely going on, but I'm 
wondering if it can handle the load or if I need another solution. We are 
using Postfix.

Ideas?

Thanks in advance.


Sarah Stapleton-Gray
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Web Site Coordinator
National Organization for Women
http://www.now.org