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[Johann Spies <address@concealed>]

Dear Sergij,

Thank you for your reply.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:04:40AM -0700, Sergiy Zhuk wrote:
> 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 ?

3.3.3-3

> How many lists do you have ?

46 at the moment if I have counted correctly from the screen of
sympa/wws.  Is there a way to query sympa to tell me how many lists
there are?  In reaction to LISTS  sympa sent me a  33 names (after I
had to restart sympa to react to my request).  

> How many of them are "include" lists ?

As far as I know none.  The list owners all populated there own lists.

> Did you try using "include2" for them instead ?

I could not see anything in the documentation about "include2".  So I
do not know that it is.


> >  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 were none.  But in /var/spool/sympa/queue there were 61.
> 
> 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).

I do not know sympa very well and would appreciate some help please.

Regards
Johann
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