People might have noticed that there have been problems with mailing lists such as gossip. I did some more checking, and here's what I found. I'm sending this out because there may be a few experts who can help figure out a solution; everyone else can safely tune out.
The problem is mailman keeps pegging the CPU near 100%, which is a big problem and makes me turn off mailman. Investigating, in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out, there was a bunch of SoBig.F virus crap, which I moved to /tmp/diediedie. My impression is that these messages were not going to be sent to the list, but rather were trying to make their way to somewhere else (maybe gossip-bounce or something). That's mostly intuition, I'm not actually sure how to parse the .db and .pck files in the directory. After clearing the files, I no longer get this awful CPU pegging from mailman. I think it is because the file sizes were about 100KB, which is over the limit that I've set exim (/etc/exim) to accept. So either we have exim and mailman getting into some sort of reject loop, or maybe we are seeing bug #208368 from bugs.debian.org. Upshot is, whenever a big mail hits mailman, it brings the entire system down to a crawl. This happens a lot especially with all the virus crap flying around the internet, so things are VERY fragile. I need to essentially keep mailman turned off until I can find a solution. When mailman is turned off, list messages sit around quietly waiting for mailman to be turned back on. Suggestions appreciated. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
