[Mailman-Developers] 2.1 final - some arch problems

[Andrew D. Clark]

bin/arch still seems to have trouble with large mbox files (448 MB in 
this case).  It actually does finish processing the archive, which is 
an improvement over 2.1 betas, but the index.html file that it 
generated only has a link for one month worth of archives.
Another interesting problem is that while a list is being archived 
(let's say there's a backlog in the arch queue for that list), 
accessing the admin interface goes into what looks like an endless load 
(waiting for the lock on the list to be released).  While I'll grant 
that this shouldn't happen too often, it seems that either locking 
should be done less zealously for things like this, or that the web 
interface ought to return some useful error, like "List currently 
locked - try again later".

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Andrew Clark
Campus Network Programmer
Office of Information Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
andrew.clark at ucsb.edu (805) 893-5311