I'm experiencing a severe problem with an outgoing list. After a fair bit of testing on a small number of recipients, we gave it an address list of 44322 addresses. When we posted to it overnight, a few unexpected things started happening, which I'll attempt to document below. 1. smtp file reports a lot of failures: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# grep 'Jul 16' smtp | grep -v 'Connection refused' Jul 16 01:15:35 2003 (21028) smtp for 44322 recips, completed in 252.830 seconds Jul 16 01:26:02 2003 (22215) smtp for 43485 recips, completed in 583.220 seconds Jul 16 01:40:04 2003 (27387) smtp for 42745 recips, completed in 524.006 seconds Jul 16 01:41:43 2003 (27387) smtp for 3 recips, completed in 3.295 seconds Jul 16 01:43:03 2003 (27387) smtp for 3 recips, completed in 1.122 seconds Jul 16 01:53:26 2003 (32732) smtp for 42245 recips, completed in 366.774 seconds Jul 16 02:02:22 2003 (4857) smtp for 41485 recips, completed in 108.675 seconds Jul 16 02:03:58 2003 (4857) smtp for 3 recips, completed in 1.694 seconds
The first attempt appeared to try and deliver to all the recipients, but then it looks like it retried and retried, over and over again. Ther are over 47,000 'Connection refused' messages in the smtp file. I see a corresponding number of entries in the post log. 2. The smtp-failure file has a log of (ignore) messages in it, like so: Jul 16 01:15:36 2003 (21028) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) There are currently 936796 ignore entires in smtp-failure 3. When qrunner runs, the load average goes through the roof - 40-60 and higher, until it's killed. It forks python processes like crazy. We're running mailman 2.0.13 on Red Hat Linux 7.0 with a 2.2.24 kernel. It's a dual P III/500 system with 256MB memory. We're using sendmail-8.11.6-25.70 Since the smaller test cases (~400 users) worked fine, I'm assuming that sendmail and mailman are properly configured and talking to each other as they should. I don't know what the problem is with this larger batch. The message is small - sendmail reports it as size=1581. The sendmail queue is almost empty - it hasn't topped 200 since the posting went out. At 1am it was 1 request, and at 2am it was only 74 (mostly bounces I think). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org