[Mailman-Users] Slow command-line unsubscription

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Sat Jul 14 20:32:48 CEST 2001


On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:56:13 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui at plaidworks.com> wrote:

> On 7/13/01 3:43 PM, "Charlie Watts" <cewatts at frontier.net> wrote:

>> I'm trying to unsubscribe about 1000 addresses from a list of
>> about 12,000.

>> It is taking -forever- . Watching ~logs/subscribe, addresses are
>> being un-subscribed at about 1 message per second.

>> Is this normal?

> Wouldn't surprise me. Since it's a single process, your MP machine
> isn't going to use all it's CPU, but the operation is going to be
> primarily disk-limted anyway -- are you using fast disks? Slow
> disks?

According to brief examination here its lock bound rather than IO or
CPU.

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