[clue-tech] CLUE Talk Mailing list mbox file too big to rsynch

[David L. Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Well, part of me wishes I knew enough about Mailman internals to answer
> that question. The other just wants an OTS remote backup that I can
> install, point at the directories, and have it just work, without my
> having to muck with it too much.

rsync.  Or maybe rdiff-backup doesn't have the same footprint.

> I'm also thinking of just setting the dovecot service to shutdown
> overnight. Might free up enough memory for the rsync to work again. That
> might be as good a solution as any. Until I know more about how Mailman
> uses its files (who knows when that might be), that might have to be good
> enough, if it works.

Well, the rsync FAQ says 800k files take about 80MB of memory.  We're 
not anywhere near 800k files, are we?  So then maybe actually running 
out of memory isn't really the problem.

It looks like we have 3 spamd processes that are using most of the 
memory.  Guess I'm not sure how top's numbers translate to total memory. 
  Maybe fewer httpd or smtp processes would help.

Dave