[Mailman-Users] Admin pages horribly slow...

[Graham TerMarsch]

Well, sorta managed to solve the problem that I was having with the stale 
lockfiles.  General consensus on responses seemed to be "erase the stale 
lockfiles", rather than helping provide any information on how to prevent 
them in the first place.  SO, I ended up setting up a script to watch for 
stale locks and remove them as soon as it finds any.

HOWEVER, I'm now running into another situation that I'm looking for 
suggestions on.  With Mailman-2.0.1 and a 65k subscriber list, _all_ of 
the administrative pages are horribly slow to load.  Even the initial 
"subscribe" pages that people post to when adding themselves to the list 
are slow.

I ended up having to crank up the webserver timeouts to 20 minutes to try 
to avoid the dangling lockfile problem, and quite frequently I can sit 
there waiting over a minute for one of the administrative pages to 
generate.

Isn't a high traffic list, though; only gets at most one posting a day.

Any suggestions on how to fine-tune the lockfile timeouts or other 
internal Mailman settings to try to increase the performance of the admin 
scripts?

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Graham TerMarsch