Well you've pegged it. That was a bug in version 2.1.2 which is fixed in 2.1.3. The patch for 2.1.2 should still be available - you could probably patch your running system and just leave it at that (an upgrade will bring the patch in anyway).
Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:26, Jay West wrote: > I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 on FreeBSD v4.8-Release, built using the port. MTA > is sendmail 8.12.8p1 > > Very frequently I will see the ArchRunner process using 99+ % of cpu. I have > searched the archives and found lots of messages about qrunners using large > percentages of cpu, but they all seem to talk about the fixes being related > to actual mail processing (sendmail), not archRunner. I am assuming that if > the problem was mail delivery or reception I would be seeing the large cpu > use on a different qrunner process. My issue is specific to the archrunner > process which I don't find much on in the archives/faq. > > I am using a pretty default install, haven't tweaked anything. If it > helps... here are some possibly germane things: > > 1) I never seem to be able to catch anything in > /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/archive, but that may be a timing thing, as my > archives do appear to be getting updated. > 2) I looked in the /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/*.mbox directories, > and find listname.mbox at 33mb and listname.mbox.1 at 54mb. Could it be that > these files are just so big that it takes huge amounts of cpu to add posts > to these? I'm guessing they are the archives. This gives rise to several > questions (someone else maintained this setup before I did). Does mailman > split them (the .1 file), or can I just rename listname.mbox to > listname.mbox.2 and mailman will have a smaller chunk to deal with? > > Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!!! > > I have another question or two but will post separately for them. > > Jay West > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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