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, parti

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

2003-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:52 AM + 2003/11/01, Richard Barrett wrote: Rather than just theorize, feel free to make specific suggestions about the deficiencies and appropriate remedies based on the code being executed. Dare I say it, you could even submit a patch to fix any obvious errors in the code. I have s

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 of

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 l

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 ea

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 t

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 que

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 qu

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 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 >

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 09:26,