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Subject: Eeek! majordomo runnink amok!
From: "D. Shevett" <shevett @ u-bet . snackfood . org>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 20:18:43 -0500 (EST)
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

Well, i just set up a new mailing list on my system, and i posted a
test message to it.  It seems to have perpetuated fine out,
but i have 2 questions.

1) Can i configure majordomo to batch mail out things it's handling?  At
the moment, it seems to be generating an instance of sendmail on a per
message basis, bogging down my little machine a lot.  Any way to 
optimize that?

2) it sees to have left a running pair of processes running.  (one may
be from a previous posting:)

last pid: 20010;  load averages:  2.39,  2.33,  2.03                   20:13:01
74 processes:  71 sleeping, 3 running
Cpu states: 95.4% user,  0.0% nice,  4.6% system,  0.0% idle
Memory:  6184K  (5544K) real,   384K free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
19616 majordom  54    0   664K  560K run    43:14 37.55% 37.50% perl
19828 majordom  54    0   664K  904K run    17:22 37.16% 37.11% perl

Bad bad bad.  :)

I may have an alias loop, but i'm not sure.  The apropos things in my
/etc/aliases files are:

#---------------------------------------------------
#
# MajorDomo stuff.
#
#---------------------------------------------------

majordomo: 		"|/u/majordom/wrapper majordomo"
owner-majordomo:	shevett
majordomo-owner:	shevett

leather-workers-request:	majordomo
owner-leather-workers:	shevett
leather-workers-approval:	shevett
leather-workers-owner:	shevett
leather-workers:	"|/u/majordom/wrapper resend -p bulk -M 10000 -l leather-workers -h snackfood.org -f leather-workers -s leather-workers-outgoing"
leather-workers-outgoing:	:include:/usr/local/mail/lists/leather-workers, leather-workers-archive
leather-workers-archive:	/usr/local/mail/archive/leather-workers



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