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[Derek Lofstrom <address@concealed>]

We're on Sympa 6.2.3 on CentOS 6.7 x64 and we have had the same problem for 
the last several months. Haven't been able to nail down any root causes yet 
and when I posed the question to this list back in Sept, it sounded like it 
wasn't a common thing people were experiencing. Based on data from the logs, 
it doesn't appear to be running out of RAM or any other server resources; it 
just....dies....sometimes ("sometimes" being every few days, like you). We 
have a cron'd script that runs each minute to inspect the status of the 
bulk.pl process, and when it detects that it's failed, it starts it back up. 
Based on having this running nearly constantly, what we've noticed is this: 
when the process is about to die, it doesn't die until it begins processing a 
batch of messages, where it will usually die somewhere around half way 
through. Unless it's processing something, it never arbitrarily dies on its 
own.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
[mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Matt Goebel
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 11:00 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] bulk.pl keeps dying?


Hello,

  Running 6.2.8 on Suse 11 with almost 20k lists on it, and starting about a 
week ago bulk.pl started to die about once day.  Is there a simple way to 
figure out what it is doing when it died, or track back what might be causing 
this?

Thanks,
Matt Goebel
address@concealed
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