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Re: large mailing lists with <b>mailman</b>



on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:25:51PM -0800, nate (debian-user@aphroland.org) wrote:
> <quote who="Karsten M. Self">
> 
> > Check your mailman and MTA (exim?) settings.
> >
> > In particular, you want to look at the batchsize and queue-run
> > options. Could your system be configured only to run queue every 12
> > hours (this isn't the default, and seems an odd value to set things
> > to).  What happens if you do a 'mailq' (as root) while messages are
> > queued up?  Are they queued in Mailman or in the exim queue?
> 
> i'll check it .. since mails are going out to the *list* before
> they are comming to me for notification of subscription ..thats
> just weird. checking the mail queues shows nothing related to
> mailman. and i did get another 450 messages or so last night.
> i'll check through crontab and see if theres a setting that
> handles that ..
> 
> i do see 258 cronjobs running with mailman stuff though.
> typical process load on the system is ~100 processes now
> there are 434 processes(load is 0.00)

Seriously:  captialization helps readability *a lot*.  Do it.

What do you mean?  There are 258 _currently running_ cron jobs for
mailman?  With a load average of 0.00, sounds like you're blocked for
output somewhere.

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