add_member on 12000 users fails

[Vonh]

Here is a list of the log. At the end of the
add_members command or the add from the web
interface, a bug screen is generated on the web
interface when you try to access the list again after
the memebers are added.

admin(935): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.7 -----]
admin(935): [----- Traceback ------]
admin(935): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(935):
File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in
run_main
admin(935): main()
admin(935):
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
152, in main
admin(935): ChangeOptions(mlist, category,
cgidata, doc)
admin(935):
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line
897, in Chang
eOptions
admin(935): digest, send_welcome_msg)
admin(935):
File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
1117, in Appro
vedAddMembers
admin(935): self.passwords[string.lower(name)] =
password
admin(935): MemoryError
admin(935): [----- Python Information -----]
admin(935): sys.version = 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 14 2001,
13:23:13)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)]
admin(935): sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python
admin(935): sys.prefix = /usr/local
admin(935): sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local
admin(935): sys.path = /usr/local
admin(935): sys.platform = freebsd4
admin(935): [----- Environment Variables -----]
admin(935):
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs
admin(935): SERVER_ADDR: 161.58.165.169
admin(935): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
admin(935): CONTENT_LENGTH: 309195
admin(935): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-
urlencoded
admin(935):
PATH_TRANSLATED: /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/scf/membe
rs
admin(935): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.22
OpenSSL/0.9.6c (Unix) FrontPage/5
.0.2.2510
admin(935): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
admin(935): HTTP_COOKIE:
scf:admin=280200000069d7e5983c732800000034636134313
661386466356465386636613732653965346436336632336466396
539363230613536; AUTH=bg2O
x2pAdTmMUu6MMDTMAxx4NCjMYu1YMjzNE64UNmTbpvtlM2jclwhVeG
gc
admin(935): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us
admin(935): REMOTE_ADDR: 66.0.103.106
admin(935): SERVER_PORT: 80
admin(935): HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive
admin(935): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5
.1)
admin(935): HTTP_ACCEPT: image/gif, image/x-
xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg
, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-
excel, application/msword, *
/*
admin(935):
REQUEST_URI: /mailman/admin/scf/members
admin(935): HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL: no-cache
admin(935): QUERY_STRING:
admin(935): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
admin(935): USER: olive
admin(935): HTTP_HOST: olive.perilpoint.com
admin(935): REQUEST_METHOD: POST
admin(935): SERVER_SIGNATURE:
admin(935): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin
admin(935): SERVER_ADMIN:
<email address hidden>
admin(935):
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin
admin(935): PYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman
admin(935): PATH_INFO: /scf/members
admin(935): HTTP_REFERER:
http://olive.perilpoint.com/mailman/admin/scf/memb
ers
admin(935): SERVER_NAME: olive.perilpoint.com
admin(935): REMOTE_PORT: 9354

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[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

This won't be fixable in MM2.0.x, so you'll need to split up
your add_member list. Can you check to see if this is still
a problem in MM2.1beta1, and if so, resubmit a bug report on
that version?