[Mailman-Users] extreme memory use by Mailman

[Ron Brogden]

Howdy.   I look after a busy mailing list server which is currently running 
version 2.1b4 of Mailman.  The sever has only just been under regular load 
the last couple of days as we were switching servers.  I've been keeping an 
eye on things and noticed that the load was up a little bit and thought I 
would see what top had to show me.

68084 mailman    2   0   107M   103M poll   160:54  0.00%  0.00% python
68085 mailman    2   0  8172K  5556K poll     4:02  0.00%  0.00% python
68089 mailman    2   0  8456K  5544K poll     2:16  0.00%  0.00% python
68087 mailman    2   0  7984K  5104K poll     1:14  0.00%  0.00% python
68090 mailman    2   0  8204K  5044K poll     1:09  0.00%  0.00% python
68086 mailman    2   0  8768K  5188K poll     0:51  0.00%  0.00% python
68088 mailman    2   0  5932K  1508K poll     0:48  0.00%  0.00% python

I find it rather alarming to see that mailman is using 130 megs of RAM at any 
given moment.  Is this usual or is there a memory leak or something  like 
that with the beta version or Python possibly?

Any suggestions on how to trim that down?

Cheers

Ron

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