27 Feb
2001
27 Feb
'01
7:26 a.m.
"MS" == Matthew Seidl <seidl@vex.cs.colorado.edu> writes:
MS> It seems to me that qrunner should at least try messages in a
MS> most recent first order, instead of oldest first. But that
MS> might still lead to starvation of some messages in the queue.The easiest fix is to add a `shuffle' (random-ish sort) of the files found in the qfile directory. If you're using Python 2.0, you could add a couple of lines to main() in qrunner to call random.shuffle() on the files returned by os.listdir(). random.shuffle() isn't in Python 1.5.2 though, so if you're using that version, you'll need to grow your own.
Although Mailman 2.1 will work very different in many ways, it will utilize random.shuffle() to improve the chances that at least every file will get an equal look.
-Barry