Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Xueshan Feng <sfeng@stanford.edu> wrote:
if I want to move quite a few *.bak aside (use timestamp as an indicator of how long they've been in that state), Is it necessary to stop the service, move files, then restart service? We have about 37,000 lists. Sometimes when I try to restart (/etc/init.d/mailman restart), OutgoingRunner won't go away, and had to be killed with -9.
This is really more involved than I can explain without a keyboard which I won't have before Tues eve, but there should be only one .bak file or one per slice if the runner is sliced. This is the message currently being processed. All others are ignored by the current runner (they will be "recovered" if the runner is restarted).
So I was wondering by moving files out of the queue without first stopping mailman, caused the OutgoingRunner to suffer.
Probably not, but it is possible. More likely, it couldn't be SIGTERMed because it was waiting for a SMTP response.
Note that part of the slowness at this point is due to the size of the out directory. You can address this by stopping Mailman, moving qfiles/out aside, starting Mailman (which should recreate qfiles/out at the first message if not before) and then moving old entries back a few at a time.
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