Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-03-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 10, 2010, at 05:51 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: >Good news (kinda) - another list on that server just started to slow >down, and this time, it is a very unimportant and small list (472 >members, 466 of them have mail delivery enabled), so I can take all >the time in the world to try and debug

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Foerster wrote: >* Mark Sapiro : > >[instructions for list duplication /SMTP redirection] >> Unfortunately, I don't have any good ideas as to how to proceed from >> there, even if this does duplicate the problem, but Barry indicated he >> has a couple of ideas. > >Well, unfortunately, this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-03-09 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Mark Sapiro : > On 2/21/2010 2:15 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > > > Bad news. I was not able to reproduce the problem on a VM, using > > backups from the day the problem first occured. And worse, this night, > > while I slept a troubled, disturbed sleep, dreaming of SMTP dialogues, > > the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/21/2010 2:15 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > Bad news. I was not able to reproduce the problem on a VM, using > backups from the day the problem first occured. And worse, this night, > while I slept a troubled, disturbed sleep, dreaming of SMTP dialogues, > the list roster changed (one new mem

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: >As expected, Postfix is not the culprit. Delivery to smtp-sink is >running at the speed of molasses, too. Now this is getting interesting . http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-February/068829.html has some perplexing numbers.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-21 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Stefan Foerster : > * Mark Sapiro : > > As I said, I think it would just be the config.pck. Everything else is > > open source software, but I don't think I want it. It's not that I'm not > > curious because I definitely am, but I don't want to accidentally send > > mail to any of the list member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Brad Knowles
On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > What is a "smaller sub-list"? The list in question does only hold 11k > recipients, which is not exactly large. Some off my SVN announce lists > are much larger. Yeah, but an announce-only list that is larger doesn't really compare to a discu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
Hi! ...[very slow list]... Seen from a very abstract standpoint, is there some pattern in the adresses to send? Some sorting algorithms go completely bonkers if fed with the wrong kind of pre-sorted or patterned input list. I did NOT look into this (not knowing enough python yet), but having st

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Brad Knowles : > On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > As I said, I think it would just be the config.pck. Everything > > else is open source software, but I don't think I want it. It's > > not that I'm not curious because I definitely am, but I don't want > > to accidentally sen

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Mark Sapiro : > On 2/20/2010 12:56 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > So, if you are personally interested in this, I would talk to a lawyer > > to find a way how I can legally provide you with a copy of every file > > that is in any way related to this list. > > As I said, I think it would just be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Barry Warsaw : > On Feb 20, 2010, at 09:56 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > >So, if you are personally interested in this, I would talk to a lawyer > >to find a way how I can legally provide you with a copy of every file > >that is in any way related to this list. > > > >If you are not _that_ interes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2010 1:38 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > Take a look at lazr.smtptest, which is what MM3 uses in its test framework. > > https://edge.launchpad.net/lazr.smtptest Thanks Barry, That's helpful. - -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamb

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 20, 2010, at 01:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >As I said, I think it would just be the config.pck. Everything else is >open source software, but I don't think I want it. It's not that I'm not >curious because I definitely am, but I don't want to accidentally send >mail to any of the list member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Brad Knowles
On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > As I said, I think it would just be the config.pck. Everything else is > open source software, but I don't think I want it. It's not that I'm not > curious because I definitely am, but I don't want to accidentally send > mail to any of the list mem

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/20/2010 12:56 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > I fear I've got a decision to make here: To "fix" that problem, I'd > normally simply export the recipient list and recreate the mailing > list thereafter. But since we don't know what causes this behaviour, I > can't be sure that my backups includ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> Have you tried any of the Postfix debugging strategies? >> >> http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html > >Yes he did. >Stefan usually knows what he's doing :) Ah, sorry about that! culling-inbox-during-pycon-talk-ly y'rs, -Barry signatu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Barry Warsaw : > Have you tried any of the Postfix debugging strategies? > > http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html Yes he did. Stefan usually knows what he's doing :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 20, 2010, at 09:56 PM, Stefan Foerster wrote: >I fear I've got a decision to make here: To "fix" that problem, I'd >normally simply export the recipient list and recreate the mailing >list thereafter. But since we don't know what causes this behaviour, I >can't be sure that my backups inclu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stefan Foerster : > I fear I've got a decision to make here: To "fix" that problem, I'd > normally simply export the recipient list and recreate the mailing list > thereafter. Is this guaranteed to help? Have you tried this? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Mark Sapiro : > Does this delay occur uniformly over the entire list, or only within > some group of recipients? It occurs for all recipients, more or less - sometimes, it gets about 5 recipients done per second, but that's still far too slow. > You could try running OutgoingRunner with Python'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/20/2010 10:27 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > Yes. From debuglevel(1) logs: > > Feb 20 19:03:15 2010 qrunner(7551): send: 'rcpt > TO:\r\n' > Feb 20 19:03:15 2010 qrunner(7551): reply: '250 2.1.5 Ok\r\n' > Feb 20 19:03:15 2010 qrunner(7551): reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.1.5 Ok > Feb 20

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Mark Sapiro : > On 2/20/2010 4:21 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > So, without VERP or personalization, you should be seeing SMTP > transactions that look like > > HELO > response > MAIL FROM > response > RCPT TO > response > (repeated for up to SMTP_MAX_RCPTS recipients) > DATA > response >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 2/20/2010 4:21 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > For all other lists on this server, the conversation between Postfix > and Mailman is very fast paced, but for that one list, it takes almost > one second for a recipient to be specified (which is then acknowledged > immediately by Postfix). So, w

[Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Stefan Foerster
Hello world, I have a very strange performance problem which only affects one small announce-only list with approximately 11000 recipients: The smtp logfile shows that it takes Mailman about 8400 seconds to deliver the mails, which just doesn't make sense. Setup: Mailman is configured to deliver