[Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

[Gareth Hopkins]

On 3 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

JC>Some guesses (since no information was provided):
JC>  Mailman 2.0.x
JC>  IDE disk subsystem
JC>  Archiving turned on for list
JC>
JC>If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing to the disk.

Howdie,

	I have switched off archiving and the python process is still
using over 98% CPU time. A truss on the process shows the following

break(0xa7e3000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac48000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7e5000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac4c000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7e7000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac50000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7e9000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac54000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7eb000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac58000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7ed000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac5c000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7ef000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac60000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7f1000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac64000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7f3000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac68000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7f5000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac6c000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7f7000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac70000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7f9000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac74000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7fb000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac78000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7fd000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac7c000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa7ff000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac80000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa801000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac84000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa803000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac88000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xa805000)                                 = 0 (0x0)
break(0xac8c000)                                 = 0 (0x0)

Any ideas?

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