So the issue seems to have resolved itself over night - there's no longer a qrunner process taking 99% cpu, the list's admin interface is accessible, and it's no longer rewriting its config.pck every few seconds, so I think that means the list is now fine (although there hasn't yet been any traffic through it so I'm not 100% sure). Even if resolved, I'd like to figure out what happened so it doesn't happen again. To answer your questions:
>Which runner? I remember the process had qrunner in its command line, but since it's gone now I can't tell you in any more detail. >What's in the various mailman/qfiles/* queues. I don't seem to have that directory? I'm running v2.1.9 on RHEL5, do you know where it would be located? >What's in Mailman's logs? The only thing relvant-seeming we were able to find in the logs was a mention in vette that a message was being held for moderation, and then a bunch of bounce-processing. >What's in Mailman's locks directory? See <https://wiki.list.org/x/17891756 >. Ok, now this is interesting: there are 6 files in /var/lock/mailman named <listname>.lock.announce.ucsd.edu.<digits>.0 They have timestamps between 3 and 4 in the morning, which is probably around the time the issue cleared up. Looking in /var/log/mailman/locks I see, starting right around the time the problem started yesterday, a bunch of stack traces with "<listname>.lock lifetime has expired, breaking" and "<listname>.lock unexpected linkcount: -1" Also, I notice that in /var/lib/mailman/data, there are currently 4 files called heldmsg-<listname>-<digits>.pck, although the admin interface says there are currently no messages being held for moderation. Does that mean anything? Kevin Bowen UCSD ITS UBPS ke...@ucsd.edu On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:59 AM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > On 5/14/18 7:26 PM, Kevin Bowen wrote: > > When I look in > > /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname>, > > I can see that mailman is continually rewriting config.pck every few > > seconds. > > > I think the "duplicate" post I rejected mentioned a qrunner at 99% cpu. > > Which runner? What's in the various mailman/qfiles/* queues. > > What's in Mailman's logs? > > What's in Mailman's locks directory? See <https://wiki.list.org/x/17891756 > >. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ > kevin.t.bowen%40gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
