On Thu 2005-09-01 (18:28), Brad Knowles wrote: > Try moving the current "bounce" directory to something like > "bounce.old", and create a new one with the same ownership and > permissions, then stop and restart Mailman. I'd be willing to bet > that directory lock contention has been a *huge* part of your problem > -- I certainly believe that it was for us on python.org.
since I had a similar problem a few weeks ago I'll try to remember what i found out then. - Incoming bounces are stored in mailman/qfiles/bounces - BounceRunner empties this directory and collects all the bounces in mailman/data/bounce-events-<pid>.pck where the real processing starts. A big number of bounces in a short time results to a correspondingly big bounce-events-file. This step is working pretty fast, so the bounce-events-file can grow really big in a short time. - Bounce Events are now sorted by list and pending Requests are stored in mailman/lists/<listname>/pending.pck If this file grows beyond a certain limit the BounceRunner spends most of his time in Reading (and writing?) this file. I'm not sure where the exact limit is, but I suspect something above a few MB - I encountered files as big as 50MB. If the BounceRunner is in the described state, the following problems occur: - new bounces are processed from mailman/qfiles/bounces at a very slow rate of one bounce a minute or even slower - the admin and list-pages of the affected list(s) on the web-server produce a timeout - all other web-pages work fine - shutting down mailman does not work exactly like intended, since the BounceRunner is not killed immediately but finishes whatever he is doing, which can take several hours. kill -9 should work but will result in missing bounces. - the rest of the Mailman programs and lists work fine The suggested move of the qfiles/bounce directory to bounce.old worked for me, but it may take some time for the BounceRunner to finish. You might even move the files from bounce.old to the current bounce directory to make sure they are processed, but you have to make sure the pending.pck is removed from the list-directory before or you will run into the same problems again. Hope this information helps in solving the problem. Regards Lorenz -- Lorenz Adena Information & Medien Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart Tel: (++49-711) 685-5993 Allmandring 30 Fax: (++49-711) 68702041 70550 Stuttgart *** RUS-Mailadresse: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
