Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: > >I patched Mailman/Queue/Runner.py and the patch applied cleanly. I even >checked that the patch had applied. > >I stopped and restarted Mailman. > >But Runner.pyc wasn't updated. > >I deleted Runner.pyc in order to make sure that the old one wasn't being >used, but 17 hours

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-17 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is an issue that affects memory usage in the qrunners. They keep a cache of list objects in memory to reduce disk IO. The cache is supposed to free the space used by a list object when there are no more references to that object, but it turns out the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Geoff Shang wrote: > >The problem we're seeing is that if the list gets any way busy, the memory >usage of the python process that runs Mailman skyrockets, dragging the >system to a crawl. Which Python process? mailmanctl should not be affected. Beyond that, there are 8 qrunner processes. Are t

[Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-12 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, We run a VPS running Debian with Mailman 2.1.11 and Postfix. Python is 2.5.2. Up until a couple of weeks ago, we were running a number of quite small mailing lists (max 200 members) with no problems. But then we imported the subscriber list of a list that we'd moved from Yahoogroups