Troy Campbell wrote: >For some reason our Mailman installation has gotten very slow. One >email distro took about 17 hours according to the user. There is data >flow as I can see by running the "mmdsr" stat script. I googled and >found something about qfiles can grow too large but don't have any in >my /var/lib/mailman directory. I also went through a checklist I found >online to tell if Mailman was hung and didn't see anything that this >matched. > >The version of Mailman we are running is: > >mailman-2.1.9-4.el5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 >(Tikanga).
In RedHat, queues are in var/spool/mailman/. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB>. >Also bouncing mailman "appears" to make it run faster for a short while >when looking at the maillog but I could be imaging things. What does this (bouncing mailman) mean? >I saw some of these errors from the mmdsr script: > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/virgin/1285535430.9693439+c15f2ea8cc51d4a0768ac9501e2 >cb46604bca247.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/in/1285358418.500119+88f4ebd1cd94a4b61b2422cf92d196b8 >e30b7c3d.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/in/1285358403.1655681+02fde9a4b5b52413bbf130b5591edc8 >55b3697b4.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357860.2852571+261eec64e3bbc89300e941420b >db7bbbbc63024d.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357858.8509741+1978e52ebf4961eae874fd3298 >3473ec5b928a92.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357851.4396069+6c0356985765abcdb511eaf973 >a1a08af2f411eb.bak > >mailman.2010_09_26: 1 Failed to unlink backup file: >/var/spool/mailman/archive/1285357851.2718539+65d7680e2649c275aff5be0bf4 >d447732180726a.bak > > > > > >It appears those files do not exist now. The Hourly summary of Posts, >Post count by List, and Post Count by Sender is in the low thousands or >hundreds. I bounced Mailman multiple times as well as bouncing postfix >thinking the system was hung before investigating the stats. I'm going >to go home now as I've been fighting this all day but will check back >later. Do you have multiple copies of the qrunners running? That could account for the errors you see. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/_4A9>. Is Mailman's out/ queue backlogged? The symptom of this is several to many files in (in your case) /var/spool/mailman/out/ and entries in Mailman's smtp log with time stamps equal to the time stamp of the prior entry + the processing time for this entry. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
