Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Troy Campbell
Sorry I realized I hadn't sent a followup email which is why you might find my reply below a little confusing. Here is that followup: I've got a little more information. I noticed that there was a lot of "deferred" postfix connections. When I dumped out the deferred queue using "postqueue -p |

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Troy Campbell
The "in" directory went empty soon after I created the "null" list (just didn't add any members)..didn't even have to stop mailman. I'm looking at the "archive" directory now trying to figure out why those files are there. It looks like it's one list over and over (different one than what was gen

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Troy Campbell
Thanks Mark for the reply... what I meant by "bouncing" was "restarting"...sorry for the slang. The emails I sent out to the list but it took about 3 hours. There is nothing in the "out" directory right now but there are 187 ".pck" files in the "in" directory if that means anything and 7624 ".pck

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Troy Campbell wrote: >Thanks Mark for the reply... what I meant by "bouncing" was >"restarting"...sorry for the slang. The emails I sent out to the list >but it took about 3 hours. There is nothing in the "out" directory >right now but there are 187 ".pck" files in the "in" directory if that >me

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Troy Campbell wrote: >For some reason our Mailman installation has gotten very slow. One >email distro took about 17 hours according to the user. There is data >flow as I can see by running the "mmdsr" stat script. I googled and >found something about qfiles can grow too large but don't have

[Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

2010-09-26 Thread Troy Campbell
For some reason our Mailman installation has gotten very slow. One email distro took about 17 hours according to the user. There is data flow as I can see by running the "mmdsr" stat script. I googled and found something about qfiles can grow too large but don't have any in my /var/lib/mailman