[Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

[Troy Campbell]

The "in" directory went empty soon after I created the "null" list (just
didn't add any members)..didn't even have to stop mailman.  I'm looking
at the "archive" directory now trying to figure out why those files are
there.  It looks like it's one list over and over (different one than
what was generating the "deferred" above).  Is there anything to look at
in particular in the message.  Why are they ending up here?  Side note,
it's kind of odd I can't get into the list through the Web interface
using the site password but can see its contents using the command line.
I wonder if the list is corrupt somehow and should be recreated?

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:40 PM
To: Troy Campbell; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] mailman is very slow...

Troy Campbell wrote:

>Thanks Mark for the reply... what I meant by "bouncing" was
>"restarting"...sorry for the slang.  The emails I sent out to the list
>but it took about 3 hours.  There is nothing in the "out" directory
>right now but there are 187 ".pck" files in the "in" directory if that
>means anything and 7624 ".pck" files in the "archive" directory.
>
>I restarted mailman carefully to verify that all processes stopped.
>
>I'm not exactly sure what to look for in the smtp log, which is
>/var/log/maillog in my case.


Mailman's 'smtp' log is with Mailman's other logs in /var/log/mailman/,
but this is not the issue if you have no files in the out/ queue.

The large number of files in the in/ and archive/ queues indicates you
have a mail loop of some sort or you are the victim of a DOS attack.

Stop Mailman. Move those queues aside in their entirety (e.g. mv
/var/spool/mailman/in somewhere/else), and examine the messages with
bin/show_qfiles.

See if more /var/spool/mailman/in/ message files are created with
Mailman stopped (new posts will create them even with Mailman stopped)

Once you figure out what's going on, start Mailman.

-- 
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San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan