[Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

[Gergo Soros]

> Running Mailman-2.0.1, with Python 1.5.2 on a RedHat 6.2 machine along 
> w/Apache-1.3.14 and Sendmail-8.11.0, and am having some serious grief with 
> stale lockfiles on one of our lists.  List contains ~60k addresses on it, 
> and has constant traffic to the WWW administration pages.  Not high volume 
> for sending msgs though (only one or two a day) as its a 
> broadcast/announce list.

Graham,

We also experienced similar problems in the past with large lists. We found 
that if the admin is accessing the long and slow-loading members admin pages, 
and does not wait for the page to complete (e.g. clicks one of the admin links 
or hits refresh or stop) the lock will remain. As a temporary solution we have 
instructed our admins to wait for all pages to completely load, no stale locks 
since then. This is on a Cobalt RaQ4i (Redhat) with Apache 1.3x. 
Hope this helps,

Gergo


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