The servers are all vps'es with 256 ram.. and the lists are as big as 33,000
subscribers per list, 3 lists per vps.. it's one big mailing list for a TV
station and newspaper.. only one message (newsletter) is sent out every day
to the subscribers.. but setting:
SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to only 5 in mailman resulted in a huge number of messages
generated by mailman that halts the servers, that's why I every hour stop
mailman then stop postfix then reboot the servers to free up the memory and
continue distributing the mail..
my question is, is this a good solution? or should I split them into very
small lists then send the same message every hour after making sure that the
servers finished distributing the mail for the previous lists?
Thanks..
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Shang
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:04 PM
To: Khalil Abbas
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Khalil Abbas wrote:
I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several
large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n
sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the
system and not enough resourses ... etc.
How limited are these servers? How big are these lists?
Geoff.
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