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[Sergiy Zhuk <address@concealed>]

hi

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Johann Spies wrote:

> worked well on Debian Stable for a few weeks.  Now users are starting
> to complain about Sympa being very slow to deliver mail.  I have
> tested it and it is so.

What sympa version are you running ?
How many lists do you have ?
How many of them are "include" lists ?
Did you try using "include2" for them instead ?

>  9822 sympa     12   0  467M 467M  2028 R    99.8 12.3   3:11 sympa.pl

> When I try and stop the sympa process  using "/etc/init.d/sympa
> stop" it would not die down.  I did not want to use a kill -9 in this

It would, you just have to wait long enough, since the OS has to take care
of memory allocation and swap.

> Exim have delivered mail to sympa but it does not appear in the
> archive of the list.

Check sympa outgoing directory, all (unprocessed) messages should be there.

There're some performance tweaks you can do, I just want to make sure you're
having issues similar to what I'm seeing (see my questions above).

thanks

-- 
rgds,
serge