Hello, I am running Debian/etch and the user "list" has a Python process which takes up 83.2% of my memory and has been running for more than 40 minutes.
My suspicion is that some sort of queue of moderator messages is very large.
In fact, /var/lib/mailman/ is very large... I cannot access the administrator interface via the web:
6733 ./qfiles 21551 ./messages 60071 ./lists/asciidoc-discuss 60093 ./lists 288500 ./data 380881 .
In looking through archives, I discovered I have more than 60,000 held messages for one mailing list:
schemelab@li2-168:/var/lib/mailman/data$ ls -l | wc -l 64688
but for some reason attempting to discard even one is not working... it just sits there and hangs:
schemelab@li2-168:/var/lib/mailman/data$ sudo ../bin/discard heldmsg-asciidoc-discuss-59527.pck Password:
(no return to shell after 5 minutes)