[Ricardo Kustner]

Hi,

well i've traced my problem back to the fact that the lock files in the archive directory are not being removed.

they appear as: 1999-May-subject.lock.<host-name>.<#####>

where <#####> is a number...

The number is the process ID (pid) of the locking process. If you do a "ps auxww | grep #####" (substituting "#####" with a number from a lock file), does any Mailman processes show up?

does anybody have the same problems?

i think this might be what causes the process-overload on our server, when an impatient moderator doesnt wait for the stalled page to completely finnish and approve several posts at once, all of them waiting for lock files to be released...?

I'll look into it -- this may be related to a problem J C Lawrence has reported (with subject "Performance under load (bursty message flow)").

Harald