Using mailman 2.1.26. I have one particular list that has a 3G mbox file and an 8G private archive directory. I was going to use prune_arch to remove any archives over a year old. I think the archives go back over ten years. This particular list server has two cpus (@2.5GHz) but not sure how fast the disk is. This server is typically more than 90% idle at any time. Maybe a few bursts of activity on large lists every now and then.
I have three questions: First, If I run the prune_arch command to remove archives older than a year, is this going to take minutes, hours or days to complete? In one post Mark Sapiro states that prune_arch locks the list while updating the LISTNAME.mbox so other processes won’t be updating concurrently. Then the list is again locked by the bin/arch process while the HTML archive is being regenerated. If this list is used on an hourly basis and the list is “locked” this could be problematic for us. Second, Our disk space is getting low and that is why we are cleaning up the archives. Is the prune_arch command going to be temporarily generating more files and taking up more space in order to process the list archives? If so I’ll have to make sure we have enough disk space to run prune_arch. I would like to schedule the prune_arch command as a cron job to run against several lists. I have looked at prune_arch before and I found some earlier posts that detailed how to prune the archives and there were more instructions that just running the prune_arch command. I cannot locate those old posts now. I should have bookmarked them. Is this all I need to do, just run prune_arch against the list and slap it in cron? Thank you for any info you can provide. — Andy ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
