qfiles & develop list weirdness
Hi,
On saturday i noticed that a lot of posts of our lists arrived very late or not at all... when i decided to have a look at the qfiles directory, I noticed that there were more than 22,000 files (yikes!) in that directory... dating back to july 17... i saw some errors from the bounce handler so I decided to remove all mailer-daemon/postmaster message from the queue and upgraded to a freshly new CVS installation... it seems to work ok now; maybe it had to do with some of the bugs discovered in beta4...
One other weird thing is that i haven't been receiving anymore mail from the mailman developers list since july 17, even though the archive shows posts from this friday and on the subscription page the mail delivery is _not_ disabled for my address... Barry do you have any idea what's going on?
Ricardo.
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
when i decided to have a look at the qfiles directory, I noticed that there were more than 22,000 files (yikes!) in that directory... dating back to july 17...
You'd probably do best to rename the 'qfiles' directory and create a new one, then move the remaining messages over to the new one. After storing 220000 files, your qfiles directory is likely to be a few hundred kbytes, making it very slow on access, and this can seriously hamper your machine, especially if it's a busy one.
Do it like this, after disabling qrunner in crontab and making sure none is running:
mkdir qfiles.new chown mailman.mailman qfiles.new chmod 2775 qfiles.new mv qfiles qfiles.old ; mv qfiles.new qfiles mv qfiles.old/*.db qfiles mv qfiles.old/*.msg qfiles
The last precaution shouldn't be necessary if no qrunner is running, but what the hell, it doesn't hurt to be careful.
-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>
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Hi,
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:14:55 +0200, Thomas Wouters said:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
when i decided to have a look at the qfiles directory, I noticed that there were more than 22,000 files (yikes!) in that directory... dating back to july 17...
You'd probably do best to rename the 'qfiles' directory and create a new one, then move the remaining messages over to the new one. After storing 220000 files, your qfiles directory is likely to be a few hundred kbytes, making it very slow on access, and this can seriously hamper your machine, especially if it's a busy one. yeah it took about 15 secs for the directory to show up with a ls -l ;-(
Do it like this, after disabling qrunner in crontab and making sure none is running:
Thanks... I actually already did something like that ... with some quick'n'dirty perl scripts (maybe one day I'll use python for that ;-) ) i moved the files to the new (empty) directory in chunks, so the server didn't get loaded too much at the same time and I could remove the mailer-daemon mail...
btw i just received all the mailman-developers mail that i didn't receive since friday at once... I'm not sure if it was because of trouble with my DNS setup (which is pretty messed up sometimes) or maybe Barry emptied a mail queue or something ;)
Ricardo.
"You think that's air you're breathing?" -- Morpheus
"RK" == Ricardo Kustner <ricardo@rixhq.nu> writes:
RK> btw i just received all the mailman-developers mail that i
RK> didn't receive since friday at once... I'm not sure if it was
RK> because of trouble with my DNS setup (which is pretty messed
RK> up sometimes) or maybe Barry emptied a mail queue or something
RK> ;)Unfortunately, I still have no shell access to any python.org machine, so I cannot look at the log files or qfiles or anything. For the time being, emailing webmaster@python.org (which I am not on) is the thing to do if you suspect problems with the Mailman installation on those machines.
Hopefully, I'll soon get access again and can look into what's actually going on on those systems.
-Barry
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