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  • From: David Verdin <address@concealed>
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  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] archive bottleneck
  • Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:22:15 +0100

Hi Alex,

Which version of Sympa are you running? Your problem comes as a susprise to me because we host lists with more than 10 000 messages a month and the messages are archived in less than a second.

So how large is the number of messages for the lists that have this problem?

Best regards,

David

On 05/11/2020 23:03, Alex West wrote:
It seems there is a severe bottleneck in the archive(outgoing) spool processing. What I am seeing is that the time required to process a message from the archive spool into the archive is very dependent on the size of the existing archive. Every message processed seems to require a stat of every file in that lists archive. For lists with large archives, this causes the processing to take over a minute per message, which causes a backlog.

Can anyone clue me in on what part of the code would be requiring this stat of every single file in the list archive? I could understand some requirement to check for old directories so that they can be removed per archive max_month limitations, but I'm not sure I understand why this is happening for every message. Or even why finding the directories needing cleaned out per max_month would require such an extensive stat of the files.

Obviously this means that this problem is going to be exponential, since some lists archives continue to grow.

Thanks

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