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On 17/09/15 04:16, Jay Leafey wrote:
> I recently stood up an EL7 box with Mailman for a few lists I run
> for some friends. My old install, on an EL6 system, ran with no
> issues for several years but I was induced to upgrade by a
> "hardware casualty" on the old system. I was going to have to
> rebuild anyway, so why not take it as an opportunity to try EL7?
>
> The build went fine and I was able to migrate the lists over with
> no issues, but once I got there just about everything to do with
> Mailman operations were painfully slow. For example, "list_lists"
> took 5 seconds of "real" time. I was used to it taking _much_ less
> as I only have about 6 lists. This affected both the command-line
> Mailman tools and the web interface. My first inclination was to
> blame Python, but other code executed just fine with it.
>
> While testing I tried an strace of list_lists and found that it
> was timing out on a read operation to a socket to the Avahi daemon
> (/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket) while trying to resolve the
> link-local IPv6 address. Having flashbacks to Sendmail stalling on
> DNS issues I decided to try fixing resolution first.
>
> As a test I put the link-local address into my /etc/hosts file with
> a localized name. Running list_lists then took about 0.19 seconds
> "real" time! The web interface also changed from painfully slow to
> it's previous behaviour on EL6.
>
> I imagine just turning off IPv6 would work as well, but I have an
> actual use case that is a lot easier with it turned on. I don't
> know if anybody else has seen this, but thought it might be handy
> for someone else.
>
Thanks a lot for having shared this. I haven't tried (yet) to test
mailman on CentOS 7 and the only one we have is on CentOS 6, and
(unfortunately) no ipv6 addr, but I do remember having had to do this
for ipv4 addr too (in /etc/hosts) to bypass the high number of dns
requests (in the past)
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Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org
gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab
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