On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:23, Jon Carnes wrote:
> I just had a client who had set:
>   QRUNNER_SLEEP_TIME = seconds(0)
> 
> This was on a 2.1.x install, and it caused a huge load on the
> processors. That was the problem.  Mailman was eating up way too much
> processor.
> 
> Five qrunners were running continuously whether they had files to
> process or not... it was quite perplexing until I happened to look in
> the mm_cfg.py file and saw that the qrunner sleep time had been set to 0
> 
>   qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s
>   qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s
>   qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s
>   qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s
>   qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s
> 
> Changing the setting back to the default:
>   QRUNNER_SLEEP_TIME = seconds(1)
> resolved the problem of too high a processor load.
> 
> A cautionary tale - Jon Carnes
> 

Opps. Just for accuracy's sake, the "OutgoingRunner" was not a problem,
but the "ArchiveRunner" was.

Jon Carnes


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