[darcs-users] Re: [darcs-devel] mailing list woes

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Wed Oct 18 16:43:04 UTC 2006


Hello again,

I got this mail, but from what I hear, some people aren't getting
darcs-devel or darcs-users email delivered at all.  If you get this mail,
could you reply to me in person? Thanks.

David (feeling very frustrated)

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:24:11AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just thought I'd let you know what the mailing list situation is, since
> some of you are having trouble accessing the list.  For some reason the
> virtual machine that darcs.net is running on has started running out of
> memory.  I'm not sure why this is.  It may have to do with the RT and
> roundup activity Eric's been doing, or it could be related to some large
> bug reports we've gotten, or possibly even my spam checker (dbacl).  I
> don't know.  But in any case, things have been dying for lack of memory,
> and when I kill all the old processes, after a while they die again.  I'm
> not sure how to debug this problem, and I certainly don't have time.  So
> please be patient.  I'll restart mailman and exim when I've got time, but
> for the moment that's all that's likely to happen unless someone (who I
> trust enough to give access) steps up.  When I do have time, I'd like to
> migrate over to a machine I have complete control over here at my new job.
> But alas, teaching graduate electrodynamics isn't as easy as one might
> think...

-- 
David Roundy
Dept. of Physics
Oregon State University




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