[Mailman-Users] Mailman Sending Out Duplicates!

[Jonathan Chum]

Just curious, is there any expected memory size for certain sized lists to
go by? What is the recommended amount of RAM for something like this which
is blasted once a week?


Regards,
Jonathan Chum
Systems Developer

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[mailto:mailman-users-bounces+jchum=aismedia.com at python.org]On Behalf Of
Jon Carnes
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Sending Out Duplicates!


Wow.  Memory is the problem.  Yes, add more memory.

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:52, Jonathan Chum wrote:
> I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, however Mailman is sending
> duplicates up to 12x for a client of ours. I reviewed the dmesg.today log
> file and notice it ran out SWAP space. The machine is a PIII 850 with 128
MB
> RAM and 512 of SWAP space.
>
> There are two lists that are blasted out. . . one list that's 72,500
> subscribers and another list of 37,300 subscribers.
>
> The problem usually occurs when the 72,500 subscribers are blasted out. We
> did not have this problem when the client started with 50K subscribers and
> the previous administrator tweaked Sendmail and Mailman.
>
> I would think Mailman working as a robust list server should have
mechanisms
> to prevent duplicate emails. Reviewing the ps -auxww when the SWAP space
ran
> out, it looked like a few Mailman processes was sucking up all the memory.
>
> Any ideas to fix tihs issue? Is memory the problem? I was thinking of
> slapping in more memory into the machine.
>
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Chum
> Systems Developer
>
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