On Wed, 02 May 2001 10:02:38 +0100
Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> The standard *nix approach is to use the process ID which is
>> guaranteed unique. If you're not running an *ix, just have one
>> process use numerically even tempfile names, and the o
Someone wrote (I got completely lost with the attributions in this and
can't find the original):-
> I ran into a strange little problem today -- I'm using time() to
> generate a filename for a temporary directory. Works great; until
> you start running multiple processes on a 2 CPU machine. I st
On Tue, 01 May 2001 21:28:03 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/1/01 8:52 PM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've avoid that because of NFS issues, i.e. if you've got
>> multiple Mailman installations sharing an NFS partition, the pids
>> aren't relevant.
I'm CC'ing Mailman developers because I want to get some feedback from
the Unix hackers amonst us; apologies for duplicates...
>> We also experienced similar problems in the past with large
>> lists. We found that if the admin is accessing the long and
>> slow-loading members admin
On Friday 27 April 2001 13:46, Gergo Soros wrote:
> > Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along
> > w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief
> > with stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k
> > addresses on it, and has cons
Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> I'm finding, though, that the WWW processes are regularly creating stale
> locks that sit around and hold everything up.
>
> Any and all information, tips, pointers, or suggestions are welcome.
I have a perl script run every 15 minutes and check for lock files. Any
> Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along
> w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief with
> stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k addresses on it,
> and has constant traffic to the WWW administration pages. Not high
Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along
w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief with
stale lockfiles on one of our lists. List contains ~60k addresses on it,
and has constant traffic to the WWW administration pages. Not high volume
