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["McLaren, Terrence M" <address@concealed>]

Here’s an example of the bulk.pl settings which are included in sympa.conf.  We run 9  instance of bulk.pl  to handle the load on our server.  You may need more or less.    

 

Hope this helps,

 

-Terry McLaren

  University of Illinois

 

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###\\\\ Bulk mailer ////###

## Default priority for a packet to be sent by bulk.

sympa_packet_priority   5

 

## Minimum number of packets in database before the bulk forks to increase sending rate

bulk_fork_threshold     1

 

## Max number of bulks that will run on the same server bulk_max_count 9

 

## The number of seconds a slave bulk will remain running without processing a ## message before it spontaneously dies.

bulk_lazytime  9999

 

## The number of seconds a bulk sleeps between starting a new loop if it ## didn't find a message to send.Keep it small if you want your server to be reactive.

bulk_sleep    1

 

## Number of seconds a master bulk waits between two packets number checks.

## Keep it small if you expect brutal increases in the message sending load.

bulk_wait_to_fork       10

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From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Youcef N Baouchi
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 11:00 AM
To: address@concealed; address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] bulk.pl keeps crashing

 

Hi Stephan,

 

We're having the same issue after upgrading to 6.2.12.  The recommended fix that was mentioned in a previous email was to configure bulk.pl to never shutdown by adjusting bulk_lazytime to 9999 in sympa.conf and increasing bulk instances as well. I tried the fix, but mine continues to crash.

 

I wrote a script to check if bulk.pl is running and to restart the sympa service if it crashed until this issue is patched.

 

thanks,

 

Youcef

 

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From: address@concealed <address@concealed> on behalf of address@concealed <address@concealed>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:03 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] bulk.pl keeps crashing

 

Dear all,

 

I have been using Sympa 6.2.3 on an old box for quite some time and never had any problems. I recently migrated to new servers and installed Sympa 6.2.12 there. In this constellation I have problems with bulk.pl which keeps crashing. It runs for a couple of hours or days and then vanishes. I ran it with --log_level=4 but in the logs there is no error before the crash. Today it crashed again and the last entry in the log was:

 

bulk[19623]: debug3 Sympa::Process::reap_child() Reaper unwaited PIDs: 18975 Open = 1

 

Since these messages appear all the time when running with log_level=4, this seems to be normal.

Is there any way to get to the bottom of this ? Is it possible to go back to 6.2.3 ? When started the newer version for the first time, a database upgrade took place.

 

Thanks,

Stephan