Some guesses (since no information was provided): Mailman 2.0.x IDE disk subsystem Archiving turned on for list
If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing to the disk. On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:22, Gareth Hopkins wrote: > Howdie, > > What is the python process doing here? > > Just got 5 messages in the space of about 10 seconds to the same > list on the machine. The list has about 15 recipients all in the same > domain. > > A top shows > > last pid: 24442; load averages: 0.99, 0.87, 0.73 up 9+22:18:18 15:19:30 > 91 processes: 2 running, 89 sleeping > CPU states: 97.7% user, 0.0% nice, 2.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle > Mem: 100M Active, 85M Inact, 43M Wired, 10M Cache, 35M Buf, 11M Free > Swap: 512M Total, 96K Used, 512M Free > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 24306 mailman 61 0 30280K 29444K RUN 9:00 97.61% 97.61% python2.2 > 24442 root 29 0 2024K 1076K RUN 0:00 15.00% 0.73% top > > --- > Gareth Hopkins > Server Operations > UUNET South Africa > (o) +27.21.658.8700 > (f) +27.21.658.8552 > (m) +27.82.929.6668 > http://www.uunet.co.za > 08600 UUNET (08600 88638) > > "The contents of this e-mail and any accompanying documentation is > confidential and any use thereof, in whatever form, by anyone other > than the addressee for whom it is intended, is strictly prohibited." > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
