[Mailman-Users] problem adding users

Richard M. Pavonarius rpavonar at cisco.com
Fri Apr 6 08:56:49 CEST 2001


I just put a new machine online running Trustix Linux 1.2, etc. etc. and 
Mailman 2.0.3-J. Now I'm trying to add 250 users to a mailing list via the 
admin Web page but I'm having some trouble.

I tried pasting all 250 addresses into the form at once (one to a line, 
Windows Netscape 4.75) but that didn't work. So I started doing 10 at a 
time, and that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

I have top running (top -q -d 2) and I can see that sometimes when I press 
the submit button python fires up only once and leaves the Web browser 
hanging. I'm also keeping an eye on /home/mailman/locks/ and I see that 
sometimes it's creating lock files, sometimes not. A few times I've had to 
clear out the locks directory to get it working again.

When it does work, I see in top that user nobody runs python, mailman runs 
python and postfix is doing its thing. (and I did renice -5 -u python ; 
renice -5 -g python, but I can't tell if it's helping.)

My questions are:
Why isn't it working every time? Why does python sometimes crap out instead 
of process the addresses? There doesn't seem to be a network problem 
between my laptop and the server.
Is there a less painful way to add lots and lots of users to a list at once?
On a 300 MHz i586, how many addresses should I be able to subscribe at a 
time? A batch of 20 takes a lot longer than I'd expect it to.

Thanks,

Rich 





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