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

Email:  [log in to unmask]

Web:  http://www.si.edu/

 

 

 

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