[Mailman-Users] mailman python-2.4 using 96% cpu

[Mark Sapiro]

Goodman, William wrote:
> 
>After downloading and installing the latest version of mailman-2.1.12rc1
>and I'm using Apache-2.2-11 and
>Postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2. On CentOS 5.2 (RedhHat) for some reason I can't
>understand the CPU usage is
>at 96% for mailman. When I do a top I get:
> 
>top - 11:18:13 up 16:38,  1 user,  load average: 2.78, 2.76, 2.62
>Tasks: 122 total,   2 running, 120 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>Cpu(s): 33.4%us,  2.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 64.0%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,
>0.0%st
>Mem:   3866536k total,  2471544k used,  1394992k free,   409096k buffers
>Swap:  4194296k total,        0k used,  4194296k free,  1435408k cached
> 
>PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
>4949 mailman   25   0  175m  37m 2760 R   97  1.0 944:03.94 python2.4
>
>4951 mailman   16   0  168m  30m 2828 S   12  0.8 288:29.09 python2.4
>
>4946 mailman   16   0  171m  33m 2752 S    2  0.9  57:05.67 python2.4
>
>11093 postfix   15   0 54512 2848 2228 S    1  0.1   0:00.29 smtpd
>
>14 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:02.48 events/0
>
>3935 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   2:42.83 kjournald
>
>6479 root      15   0 88068 3232 2516 S    0  0.1   0:00.17 sshd
>
>10942 postfix   15   0 54212 2624 2064 S    0  0.1   0:00.20 local
>
>11157 postfix   15   0 54252 2360 1820 S    0  0.1   0:00.11 cleanup
>
>11172 postfix   16   0 55140 2356 1820 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 cleanup
>
> 
>When I search for that PID I get this:
> 
># ps -ef | grep 4949
>mailman   4949  4938 94 Feb03 ?        15:44:50 /usr/bin/python2.4
>/opt/software/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s


What release did you upgrade from?

What's in Mailman's logs?

What's in Mailman's qfiles/in/ directory?

What are the other two high cpu runners (pids 4951 and 4946)?

Does Mailman work normally except for this high cpu usage?

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