[Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

[Gareth Hopkins]

Howdie,

	What is the python process doing here?

	Just got 5 messages in the space of about 10 seconds to the same
list on the machine. The list has about 15 recipients all in the same
domain.

A top shows

last pid: 24442;  load averages:  0.99,  0.87,  0.73 up 9+22:18:18  15:19:30
91 processes:  2 running, 89 sleeping
CPU states: 97.7% user,  0.0% nice,  2.3% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 100M Active, 85M Inact, 43M Wired, 10M Cache, 35M Buf, 11M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 96K Used, 512M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
24306 mailman   61   0 30280K 29444K RUN      9:00 97.61% 97.61% python2.2
24442 root      29   0  2024K  1076K RUN      0:00 15.00%  0.73% top

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