[Mailman-Users] qrunner lockup / mass moderation

[Stephan Uhlmann]

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Hello,

since a few days I have the following problem:

The qrunner locks up (strace output repeats and repeats as if the process is 
caught in an endless loop) and uses 100% of my CPU.
The lock-files are dated in the future (but I have a ntp synched clock).
The only qrunner log file (which is not dated in the future) keeps saying 
"Could not acquire qrunner lock".

What could be the problem?

I have two lists with a relatively large amount of messages in the moderation 
queue (800+ and 1100+). Maybe the queue runner needs more and more time to 
process these? The messages are all spam and can be thrown away, but I just 
can't delete them by the browser admin interface. This would take too much 
time. Is there another way to do such mass moderation?
I tried to move away the files in the data/ directory but then Mailman 
complains about missing them, so I guess I have to do it the "Mailman way" to 
keep everything consistent.
Maybe with the "withlist" tool?

In the archives I found this message:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-January/003419.html
but the link there points to the Mailman documentation which does not have 
such a script (anymore).

I run Mailman 2.0.13 and Python 2.1.1. Yes, I know this is a pretty old setup 
but I can't upgrade right now.


Cheers,
Stephan
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