[Mailman-Users] Can't login mailman list admin web

[Anne Ramey]

    Mark Sapiro wrote:

    Stanley Chen wrote:
      

>     >
>     >Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still 
>     >running.
>         


    What is still running? Is Mailman still sending to the MTA?


      

>     >However, we can't login to the admin webpage. After we input password, 
>     >the page was loading as shown in the status bar, but after several 
>     >minutes still can't show the admin page and finally it said "page can't 
>     >be loaded".
>         


    Seems like the list may be locked. If so, and the lock is stale, you
    can manually remove the lock from Mailman's locks/ directory, but
    first be sure it isn't locked by some current process.
      

Sounds to me like the server is just too busy for the web to respond 
before the browser time-out.  I used to get this all the time on my 
100K-500K member list sendings.  If a message was still being 
sent/processed, the web site would not respond, or would respond very 
slowly.  It is generally the case that servers consider other task, 
including smtp, a higher priority than http requests.  This can cause 
http requests to time out if the server resources are otherwise occupied.

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Anne