Steven Jones wrote: > >Is there a way forward? I have to hand this on as I have to fix something >else...will come back to it in about 4 hours from now.... >
OK, As you see, I too have been off line for a while. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] >Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 3:56 a.m. >To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly > >Steven Jones wrote: >> >>Yesterday after 5 years of operation ou mailman application has "died" it >>seems to be barely running taking 3 or more hours to process lists...previous >>load was <0.2 now its around 1 with a python process absorbing 1 CPU >>constantly. > > >Which python process - i.e.which qrunner. > >============ >how do I identify such a "qrunner?" >============ ps -fwu mailman will list all the Mailman processes and the commands that invoked them which include the qrunner names. >Also look in Mailmans qfiles/* directories to see which one has a large >number of messages. > >========== >its empty, > >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# cd /var/spool/mailman/ >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# ls -al >total 12 >drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 6 2005 . >drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Feb 17 15:12 .. >drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 22 2007 qfiles >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# cd qfiles/ >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 qfiles]# ls -al >total 8 >drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 22 2007 . >drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 6 2005 .. >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 qfiles]# ls -al >total 8 >drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Mar 22 2007 . >drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 6 2005 .. >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 qfiles]# > >========== Then your qfiles are somewhere else. Even if the queues are empty, there will still be a directory per queue archive bad bounces commands in news out retry shunt virgin (well maybe not 'bad' but all the others) > >>We are running on RHEL3-32bit and the errors are, >> >>============ >> >>Error log for Mailman (vuwunicosmtp004.vuw.ac.nz:/var/log/mailman/error) >> >>says: >> >> >> >>RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded >> >> >> >>Feb 17 07:48:26 2010 (13368) SHUNTING: >>1266281245.229378+bd3f1d42e27ad38cf532b809460a0b0a8aef00e7 >> >> >> >>The last number is a message ID in Mailman queue >> >>/var/mailman/qfiles/shunt/1266281245.229378+bd3f1d42e27ad38cf532b809460a0b0a8aef00e7.pck >>============ > > >How many of these are there? > >======== >seems a lot..... > >The error log is significantly bigger because of them, > >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# pwd >/var/log/mailman >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# ls -l >total 81400 >8><----- >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 79321195 Feb 18 08:05 error >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 6997 Feb 13 16:42 error.1 >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 11798 Feb 7 04:02 error.2 >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 7142 Jan 31 03:19 error.3 >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 3313 Jan 24 01:54 error.4 >8><----- >======== > > >This may be unrelated. Is there a >traceback with the above error? What is it? > >=========== >this? >=========== >File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 186, in deepcopy > y = copierfunction(x, memo) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 283, in _deepcopy_inst > state = deepcopy(state, memo) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 186, in deepcopy > y = copierfunction(x, memo) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 246, in _deepcopy_dict > y[deepcopy(key, memo)] = deepcopy(x[key], memo) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 186, in deepcopy > y = copierfunction(x, memo) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.2/copy.py", line 219, in _deepcopy_list > y.append(deepcopy(a, memo)) [...] >RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded > >Feb 18 08:05:23 2010 (22075) SHUNTING: >1266281265.9402289+108ada57b8e680da231d7a75a9bf50e08bbce3fe >[r...@vuwunicosmtp004 mailman]# Yes, that. Something is really hosed. Have you tried just restarting Mailman? What's at the start of that traceback leading up to the first call to deepcopy? This could also be a some kind of list object corruption leading to a circular reference. Hard to say without more information. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
