On 8/5/22 14:03, summersan@nclack.k12.or.us wrote:
Previously, there were
34775files in the/opt/mailman/mm/var/queue/bouncesdirectory, ranging from June 7 to August 4. For background, there's typically a time in the summer where many user accounts are purposely disabled (generally near July-August, I think). From the bounce file dates, I wonder if this bounce-related issue has been happening for longer than I first realized.
The issue is that sometimes the bounce runner dies. This can be from an OOM error or some other reason, but I have observed it even on systems I admin. The master SHOULD restart it, but it doesn't. See https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/898.
Anyway, it appears your bounce runner died sometime on or before June 7 (if you have syslog from then it might have a clue), and you didn't stop and start Mailman core until August 4 when the bounce runner started again and began chugging through it's queue.
I.e., I think everything in your installation is OK and the excessive load was just due to processing the 34775 queued bounces that should have been processed gradually over the previous 2 months. Although 500 bounces per day seems like a lot, but if you have a lot of lists, and bouncing users aren't being disabled because bounce runner isn't running, this may be normal.
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