Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:54:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: wjv@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/50736: ports/mail/mailman /var/cron/tabs/mailman thrashes system Message-ID: <200304082054.h38KsDSV013745@king.jhs.private> Resent-Message-ID: <200304082100.h38L0Zns076408@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 50736
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: ports/mail/mailman /var/cron/tabs/mailman thrashes system
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 08 14:00:35 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: "Julian Stacey jhs@freebsd.org" <jhs@berklix.com>
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mini.berklix.org 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Thu Mar 6 14:41:40 GMT 2003 root@wind.jhs.private:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
On a physically Very small backup host (size of a book - hence
still in use though just a 386 !) ...
dmesg:
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
# "SX 33" on chip, though dmesg reports "DX"
real memory = 16646144 (16256K bytes)
avail memory = 11235328 (10972K bytes)
ad0: 4134MB <IBM-DCAA-34330> [8400/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
>Description:
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman; xs make install
on any slow or loaded machine, where presumably the qrunner
takes longer than one minute to run, wait for qrunners to
build up, the disc to thrash, & finally if you don't catch
it in time, you cant even remote login in to reboot, as
ssh times out. A pruned `ps -laxww is appended'
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UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
0 291 109 14 -6 0 1040 72 piperd I ?? 0:00.09 cron: running job (cron)
91 292 291 44 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 293 292 94 39 0 4832 808 - R ?? 0:33.51 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 296 109 13 -6 0 1040 72 piperd I ?? 0:00.07 cron: running job (cron)
0 297 109 11 -6 0 1040 72 piperd I ?? 0:00.08 cron: running job (cron)
91 298 297 45 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
91 299 296 45 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 302 298 100 40 0 4488 1060 - R ?? 0:24.39 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
91 303 299 119 42 0 4452 1144 - R ?? 0:24.82 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 307 109 101 -6 0 1040 72 piperd I ?? 0:00.06 cron: running job (cron)
91 309 307 130 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 310 309 100 40 0 4064 836 - R ?? 0:18.46 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 314 109 13 -6 0 1040 72 piperd I ?? 0:00.08 cron: running job (cron)
91 315 314 55 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 316 315 94 39 0 2864 1024 - R ?? 0:12.68 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 324 109 76 -6 0 1040 76 piperd I ?? 0:00.06 cron: running job (cron)
91 325 324 115 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 326 325 109 -22 0 2440 920 - RL ?? 0:08.68 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 333 109 14 -6 0 1040 76 piperd I ?? 0:00.07 cron: running job (cron)
91 334 333 52 10 0 628 0 wait IWs ?? 0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 335 334 104 41 0 2224 876 - R ?? 0:04.16 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
0 340 109 15 -6 0 1040 260 piperd S ?? 0:00.10 cron: running job (cron)
0 341 109 19 -6 0 1040 252 piperd S ?? 0:00.11 cron: running job (cron)
91 342 340 59 10 0 628 68 wait Ss ?? 0:00.42 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
91 343 341 60 10 0 628 60 wait Ss ?? 0:00.44 /bin/sh -c /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
91 345 343 89 39 0 1892 852 - R ?? 0:00.69 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
91 346 342 88 39 0 1892 888 - R ?? 0:00.70 /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
--------
>Fix:
Reduce the aggresive default /var/cron/tabs/mailman entries below:
# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to maila \
. You can comment this one out
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * \
/usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
# Retry failed deliveries once per minute.
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S \
/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner
Comment out gate_news by default, to match
the admin web page, which also has news gating off by default.
Change qrunner to 5 * * * * or 10 * * * *
The few people that want a fast list can reduce it manually.
An agressive 1 minute machine thrasher is not nice.
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