On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
I've discovered the cause of the CPU usage problem. I had ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX set to the default of 2. It appears that the archiver eats an awful lot of processor power - so much that the backlog caused by the earlier bug was taking ages to clear. The qrunner would sit in the second part of ToArchive::process for around fifteen minutes whilst holding onto the list lock which stopped the web interface from working.
Yep, this is known, I've had the same problem on several servers, including sourceforge.net, which only has 2G of memory a dual 800Mhz P3 or something, so don't feel inferior with your machine, it's the code that's at fault :-)
The good news is that the mm folks know about this and redesigned the queueing system to avoid this holdup. All that said, pipermail will still not be an archiver of choice, you are encouraged to use something else.
Empegs rule! :-) Marc
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