[Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

[Jon Carnes]

Some guesses (since no information was provided):
  Mailman 2.0.x
  IDE disk subsystem
  Archiving turned on for list

If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing to the disk.

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:22, Gareth Hopkins wrote:
> 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
> 
> ---
> Gareth Hopkins
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