Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 8:04:27 AM, Keith wrote: KJ I have read forum results that this behavior is the reverse of KJ what should happen, I should get a reduction in CPU. I did this KJ around 11pm last night, usually during peak times this server KJ would stay at 65% load. Is there anything I

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Thanks for the reply. Running on an IBM Xseries 225 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB RAM - running IBM's ServerRAID 5i in IBM's RAID 10 config (4 73GB 10K drives) - O/S is Windows 2000 Standard Server SP4 Running Imail 8.15HF1 with Declude JM/Virus 1.82 - BIND DNS Server

Re[4]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 11:44:07 AM, Keith wrote: KJ Pete, KJ Thanks for the reply. KJ Running on an IBM Xseries 225 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB RAM - KJ running IBM's ServerRAID 5i in IBM's RAID 10 config (4 73GB 10K drives) KJ - O/S is Windows 2000 Standard Server SP4 KJ

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Wow, thank you for the explanation. I did let the persistent server run for 30 min after I restarted the services. However, I did stop the services, then started Sniffer service, then restart Imail services. I could have gotten a backlog of retries at that moment that pegged the

Re: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Matt
Keith, Windows DNS service will handle over a million lookups a day without blinking. There should be no reason to switch to a different DNS server. It hardly even registers any CPU load on my boxes. The biggest CPU hog is the virus scanners, and choosing your virus scanners carefully will

Re[6]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:37:33 PM, Keith wrote: snip/ KJ pegged the CPU as you stated. We have batted around running BIND KJ for NT/2000 on the local machine, but my fear was overhead of KJ another major process running. I don't have any good stats on how KJ much CPU/Memory BIND on an Imail

RE: Re[8]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Yes the file is changing every few seconds or sooner. Sorry, I just did a 'grab' of it and posted. The 307 is due to me stopping it after 30 min or so and altering the few changes to the .conf file. I will continue to monitor it over the weekend. However, so far so good.