5 May
2002
5 May
'02
9:46 p.m.
[about occasionally exhausting file descriptors...]
"JWB" == John W Baxter jwblist@olympus.net writes:
JWB> We haven't moved to either Mailman 2.1 or Exim 4 (on the
JWB> Mailman machine) yet.
JWB> But...we are seeing a Python-based web dynamic page server
JWB> (not Zope...in-house) leaving open files behind with a fairly
JWB> new Python.
JWB> We've temporized by having a monitor which does a suitable
JWB> lsof and counts the relevant open files...killing and
JWB> restarting that server when the count reaches 1000.
JWB> I'll pass along to the (really sharp) guy who is working on
JWB> that problem that you're seeing something at least vaguely
JWB> similar. We've been operating on the theory that the problem
JWB> is in our code, but...perhaps not?
Possibly not, although I don't recall seeing anything on the Python lists about it. I'm running Mailman (both 2.0.10 and 2.1b2) on Python 2.1.2. I should probably upgrade to 2.1.3. However I never saw the problem until we upgraded to Exim 4. OTOH, we also turned on SpamAssassin full-bore about the same time, so there are lots of variables in this equation <wink>.
I haven't seen the problem in at least a week, so who knows? We're certainly catching lots of spam! Greg Ward should be back online any time now, so he probably won't have time to look at this until he catches up (he's our Exim guru).
-Barry