I'm not sure why everyone just wants to throw RAM at the thing. Using 10 GB of memory with an unspecified number of active webmail users could be reasonable in some cases, and totally unreasonable in others. Certainly SmarterMail may have some leaking issues in IIS/.Net that memory won't do much to fix.
I would suggest at least offering how many logged in users you have at peak times, and how many accounts there are. I would also use something like Process Explorer to verify what process is hogging all of the memory. I would guess it is IIS and that there is some sort of .Net issue that exposes itself mostly under heavier load. I do have a client that has about 2,000 mostly webmail users who are pretty active with hundreds of GB's of mail in the accounts, and I have heard of no such issues with SM 8.x. They are Windows 2003 with 4 GB of memory and I think 4 cores, but they have a pretty fast RAID array. Regarding VMware, never short the server on disk I/O. You will see all sorts of CPU issues once the server gets backed up on disk and it falls apart pretty quickly after that. In Process Explorer running on the guest, if you see regular spikes in Hardware Interrupts CPU utilization, that says you don't have enough disk I/O. Regularly seeing more than 10% for that would indicate an issue that needs attention. Matt On 9/26/2011 3:14 PM, Nick Hayer wrote: > I have it on a VM - vmware 4.1 - no issues at all. Why not just PTV > it now - give it more ram and processors in the migration and see what > happens? > > -Nick > > *MadRiverAccess.com**|**Skywaves.com Tech Support* > US/Canada 877-873-6482 or International +1-802-229-6574 > Emergency Support 24/7: supp...@skywaves.net > General and Non-Emergency support ticket: > https://www.skywaves.com/content/secure/support_ticket.htm > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From*: "Scott Fosseen [Prairie Lakes AEA]" <sfoss...@aea8.k12.ia.us> > *Sent*: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:08 PM > *To*: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > *Subject*: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Performance issues with SM 8.2 w Declude > > > Running Win 2003 Standard on 32 bit hardware. I am going to bump the > RAM up > to 4 Gb tonight to see if that helps. I should say what I am seeing is > that > the SM Web interface becomes unresponsive at times. I have been unable to > correlate the unresponsive interface with specific high CPU or Memory use > though. > > I have been planning on installing a new Win 2K8 64 bit OS to migrate > SM to.. > Is there any issues or suggestions on setting this up as a Virtual > machine > in a VMware environment? > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Randy A" <ra...@globalweb.us> > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 1:47 PM > To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Performance issues with SM 8.2 w Declude > > > Which version of Windows server are you running? That will be important > > also as, for example, WIN Server 2003 Standard only allows a max of 4GB > > RAM, while WIN Server 2003 Enterprise has a 64GB limit > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Fosseen [Prairie Lakes AEA] [mailto:sfoss...@aea8.k12.ia.us] > > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:44 AM > > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com > > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Performance issues with SM 8.2 w Declude > > > > I am starting to have some serious performance issues since I > upgraded to > > SM 8.2. Although I can not be for sure that is it due to the upgrade as > > usage has also increased with added clients and the start of school. The > > big issue is that the web interface becomes unresponsive for up to > about 5 > > minutes. The machine has 2 Gig of RAM, and a swap file of 5.5 Gig. In > > Windows task manager I see my peak memory usage is now 10 gig. > > > > Right now I am not sure if the performance issues are being caused by > RAM, > > too much traffic, Smartermail, or Declude. > > > > > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type > "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
