On 5/24/24 3:37 PM, admin@bclug.ca wrote:
Is nntp common enough these days to be a useful default runner?
I disabled it in mine when I noticed it, but it seems (IMHO) a waste of resources (yet another Python interpreter running) for a fairly edge case of mailing list <--> nntp transits.
You raise an interesting point. By default, the runner runs, but if
there are no lists gating to usenet, its queue is always empty and it
mostly sleeps between waking, finding its queue empty and going back to
sleep. A more significant use of resources is every (default) 5 minutes
spawning mailman gatenews which goes through a startup process and
then looks at every list figuring out there's nothing to do.
We could default mailman.cfg to contain start: no in the runner.nntp
section so people would need to enable it if they wanted it. What do
others think?
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