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[Stephan <address@concealed>]

Thanks, Youcef and Terry, I'll give that a try.

Am 26.01.2016 um 18:04 schrieb McLaren, Terrence M:
> 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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> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2016 5:03 AM
> *To:* address@concealed <mailto: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