[Mailman-Users] Excessive cpu usage

Arnar Birgisson ArnarB at oddi.is
Wed May 28 16:42:52 CEST 2003


Something of the sort yes.. if I stop mailman, there is one message in
the out queue. However, using dumpdb reveals that this is just a normal
message being posted to a list, not a confirm message. dumpdb on the .db
file gives (I have replaced @ with 'at' in email addresses..)

{   'decorated': 1,
    'lang': 'en',
    'listname': 'configfiles-commits',
    'original_sender': 'arnarb at oddi.is',
    'origsubj': '[CVS] cvs-configfiles: poki.oddi.is/etc/mail/ exim',
    'received_time': 1054116645.529613,
    'recips': ['x at oddi.is', 'arnarb at oddi.is', 'x at oddi.is'],
    'tolist': 1,
    'version': 3}

and dumpdb on the .pck file gives the message source, complete with
mailman-added headers and all.
The headers are..

>From root at linux.oddi.is Wed May 28 10:10:44 2003
Received: from root by poki.oddi.is with local (Exim 4.20)
        id 19KxtM-0004OC-K3     for configfiles-commits at
listar.oddi.is;
        Wed, 28 May 2003 10:10:44 +0000
From: "Ofurpaur" <arnarb at oddi.is>
To: configfiles-commits at listar.oddi.is 
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:10:44 +0000
Subject: [Configfiles-commits] [CVS] cvs-configfiles:
poki.oddi.is/etc/mail/
        exim
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Arnar

>>> Gerald Combs <gerald+mailman at ethereal.com> 28.5.2003 14:34:04 >>>
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Arnar Birgisson wrote:

> Sorry for replying to my own post.. but I just noticed by watching
the
> $prefix/qfiles/out directory.. that files are being created and
removed
> there constantly.. still, nothing in the logs. There is however no
> ongoing traffic at the moment, this is a private server with few
lists.
> My MTA is Exim 4, since recently.

This sounds similar to a problem I'm having.  In my case, if I stop
qrunner there's a single message in the "out" queue. 
$prefix/bin/dumpdb
shows that it's a malformed confirm message.  Like you, nothing shows
up
in Mailman's nor (in my case) Postfix's logs.





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