Hi Janice.  We ran into similar issues.



        Listserv had no room to work (write temp files).

Some of our long-term lists have hefty archives; we were running low on disk space, cache.



Our solutions…



Modify user behavior:

•       We advise subscribers from the hefty lists to run multiple searches,

      spanning only a few years at a time.  Some years back, a user

      tried to run a search against 15 years worth of archives during prime time!





Maintenance:

•       We prune the archives periodically – around the holidays and

      usually the beginning of summer.  I keep a copy offline and

      give the listowners a copy of archives that were pruned.



•       Added more disk space; increased cache.  We have not had any

      issues since.









Janice wrote:



>  We have recently experienced extensive searches



      >that have negatively impacted the ListSev service.  The

      >end result is users unable to authenticate to

      >ListServ.  A reboot quickly resolves the issue.







Mignon Erixon-Merritt

Postmaster, Systems Software Specialist

Smithsonian Institution, OCIO

380 Herndon Parkway, MRC 1010

Herndon, VA  20170

Tel:  202-633-6373

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