Item3718: mailnotify is a resource hog

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Low	Confirmed	Extension	MailerContrib

On twiki.org, mailnotify is running for several hours and consumes a lot of cpu. Here is what top is currently reporting:

   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
  7696 nobody     1   0    2   55M   54M cpu/0   20:57 49.05% perl
  8537 nobody     1  59    0   59M   56M sleep    1:56 11.86% speedy_backend
  8565 nobody     1  59    0   78M   73M sleep    2:49  0.56% speedy_backend

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 05 Mar 2007

About one hour later:

   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
  7696 nobody     1  14    2   60M   58M cpu/1   70:50 49.04% perl
 20628 nobody     1  59    0   84M   79M sleep    1:42  3.67% speedy_backend
 20657 nobody     1  59    0   76M   73M sleep    1:53  1.31% speedy_backend

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 05 Mar 2007

There is no doubt it can be improved; however it works for most TWiki sites, so I am reclassifying this as Low priority.

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