Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: I've discovered the cause of the CPU usage problem. I had ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX set to the default of 2. It appears that the archiver eats an awful lot of processor power - so much that the backlog caused by the earlier bug was taking ages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: I've discovered the cause of the CPU usage problem. I had ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX set to the default of 2. It appears that the archiver eats an awful lot of processor power - so much that the backlog caused by the earlier bug was taking ages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Crowe
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:14:44AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: [stuff about the archiver being slow] Yep, this is known, I've had the same problem on several servers, including sourceforge.net, which only has 2G of memory a dual

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc

2001-04-28 Thread Mike Crowe
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:24:29AM +0100, I wrote: In any case, if the MTA was the problem I wouldn't have expected the qrunner process to be using lots of CPU - surely it would just be blocked consuming nothing? I've done some further investigation myself by inserting syslog statements deep

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-04-28 Thread Mike Crowe
Continuing the bad netiquette of replying to myself... On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:25:53PM +0100, I wrote: I hope my understanding of this problem is correct and the above information is useful. I don't think I've got to the bottom of the CPU usage problem, but this was certainly part of it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Crowe
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:29:35AM -0700, Steve Pirk wrote: I would do some tests on basic mail... Telent to the box on port 25 and see how long it is before you get the greeting. Do the smae on the box to an outside machine. Both should be *very* fast. If they are not, look into reverse

[Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Crowe
On 23 March 2001, Bill Bradford wrote: Upgraded to Python 2.0 this morning, and recompiled/reinstalled mailman 2.0.3 along with it (had already been running this version, but I figure recompiling/installing it along with the new python wouldnt hurt). I started getting a lot *more* of these