Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-11-03 Thread Richard Barrett
Scott Further to my earlier post on this topic, I have taken a look at the pipermail archiver code. I concluded that there is a bug (or is it a feature?) which bloats the size of the -article file in the pipermail database for each list. This bloat will affect archiving performance,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:29 PM -0500 2003/10/31, Scott Lambert wrote: If we were talking about more than 10,000 files, I might buy it. But we are talking about 1300 files. Many filesystems start significantly slowing down around 1,000 files, not 10,000. Moreover, are you sure that this is the largest number

[Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Jay West
I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 on FreeBSD v4.8-Release, built using the port. MTA is sendmail 8.12.8p1 Very frequently I will see the ArchRunner process using 99+ % of cpu. I have searched the archives and found lots of messages about qrunners using large percentages of cpu, but they all seem to talk

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Jon Carnes
Well you've pegged it. That was a bug in version 2.1.2 which is fixed in 2.1.3. The patch for 2.1.2 should still be available - you could probably patch your running system and just leave it at that (an upgrade will bring the patch in anyway). Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Fri, 2003-10-31 at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:11AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:26, Jay West wrote: I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 on FreeBSD v4.8-Release, built using the port. MTA is sendmail 8.12.8p1 Very frequently I will see the ArchRunner process using 99+ % of cpu. I have searched

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Barrett
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 08:52 pm, Scott Lambert wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:11AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:26, Jay West wrote: I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 on FreeBSD v4.8-Release, built using the port. MTA is sendmail 8.12.8p1 Very frequently I will see the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:52:34PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote: Once I kill off the mailman queue runners and clean up the several lock files for this mailing list, it runs just fine and manages to empty the archive queue. Well, the above statement is not entirely accurate. It was working

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:21 PM -0500 2003/10/31, Scott Lambert wrote: I haven't looked at the code yet, and probably won't (ENOTIME), but it almost sounds to me like it's not pruning it's list of handled messages and has to walk all of them each time. I would have expected queue handling to get faster as the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Barrett
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 11:59 pm, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:21 PM -0500 2003/10/31, Scott Lambert wrote: I haven't looked at the code yet, and probably won't (ENOTIME), but it almost sounds to me like it's not pruning it's list of handled messages and has to walk all of them each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Lambert
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:21 PM -0500 2003/10/31, Scott Lambert wrote: I haven't looked at the code yet, and probably won't (ENOTIME), but it almost sounds to me like it's not pruning it's list of handled messages and has to walk all of them each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archrunner using large %'s of cpu (read faq archives)

2003-10-31 Thread Jon Carnes
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 21:29, Scott Lambert wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:21 PM -0500 2003/10/31, Scott Lambert wrote: I haven't looked at the code yet, and probably won't (ENOTIME), but it almost sounds to me like it's not pruning it's list of