[Mailman-Users] Mailman issue downloading full raw archive

[Jared Nyland]

That did the trick for this issue

Thanks again
Jared

On 11/17/06, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
> Jared Nyland wrote:
> >
> >Great Thanks for the help on this issue.  I have added that code to my
> >private.py and now I am getting this error.
> >
> >
> >Traceback:
> >
> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 88, in run_main
> >    sys.__stdout__.write(tempstdout.getvalue())
> >MemoryError
>
>
> You can try the following change to /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver.
>
> locate the code
>
>         try:
>             try:
>                 sys.stderr = logger
>                 sys.stdout = tempstdout
>                 main()
>                 sys.__stdout__.write(tempstdout.getvalue())
>             finally:
>                 sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__
>                 sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
>
> and change it to
>
>         try:
>             try:
>                 sys.stderr = logger
>                 sys.stdout = tempstdout
>                 main()
>                 tempstdout.seek(0)
>                 line = tempstdout.readline()
>                 while line:
>                     sys.__stdout__.write(line)
>                     line = tempstdout.readline()
>             finally:
>                 sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__
>                 sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
>
> This and the prior change are really only a stopgap. I now see the
> issue is twofold. The output of the CGI is written to an in-memory
> string and then ultimately copied to the real stdout. The base code
> actually copies things in a way that at times there are two full
> copies of the file in memory at once. These changes do the copy a line
> at a time so that there is only one file copy in memory plus a line
> which should avoid the problem for now, but eventually, the file will
> grow large enough so that even one copy won't fit in memory, but
> before that, perhaps the browsers receiving this file will choke.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>