Gentlemen, We are noticing a recurring (every few days this happens) number of runaway Python threads on our mailing list server, and was wondering if there is any known reasons why this would be happening or if anyone has encountered this before? The threads are chewing up CPU time and I just killed 4 of them, each in the hundreds of minutes of CPU time, the load average on the server was skyhigh and crawling.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but I think that the queue still fills when this is happening, which was creating a logjam. qmail-remote processes are still spawning, so things are running again, but while I am right now reading through the documentation and trying to understand the code (not an accomplished programmer), I would appreciate some help here. Would creating a cron job that scans for runaway Python processes (running for more than 10:00, for instance) be okay, or does that break something? Mailman: 2.0.5 Python: Active Python 2.1, build 210 Linux: Redhat 6.2 (Zoot) John Jones, Systems Admin http://www.ActiveState.com Programming for the People ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users