Hi,
On 22-May-99 Harald Meland wrote:
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)").
I guess so -- it happened again this morning when a moderator was approving some posts, the server go a unbelievable high load: it took me about 30 minutes to get into a telnet session and issue a shutdown :( Everytime a post is approved, the connection stalls exactly 15 seconds (which happens to be exactly the timeout of the lockfiles in mailman)... usually when i had to do a shutdown, i have to replace ~mailman/lists/list-name/config.db with config.db.latest because it has become corrupted ("no such list") anyway, the server also handles mail and is supposed to be up 24h a day and i hope i can fix this soon cause this is getting unworkable :(... and this way i never get a cool uptime :)
ps: sorry for cross-posting in mailman-users and develop ...