Yes I did try a restart after the config change.  Can anyone else take a
look at there outgoing messages and give me an estimate of how many are
being sent a second?

Thanks! 

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Slow Email Engine

Mike,

Just some thoughts....

I may be wrong... but I think NumberOfSenderTreads only becomes
effective after the Email Engine is stop/started. Did you do that after
making changes to that setting?

Also...

Another possible way to get the Email Engine to "process more mail" is
to split the mail into separate Mailbox Configurations. Basically, my
understanding is that the Email Engine processes each mailbox
independent of the others, so if you had two mailboxes (instead of
one) in theory the number of mails processed per second could double.
(Assuming your SMTP server, and your network connection to it is not the
bottleneck.)

How to do that with OOB notifications.... I am not sure. I would hope
that there is a "template" for all OOB notifications that you could
update the data and drive them "out" through different mailbox's. But I
do not know that it works that way. (Good luck)

You might also add workflow to the AR System Email Messages form to
"update the mailbox info" and "spread the load" from that form too.
However, that likely would add a fair amount of overhead to that
processing too, but it should work.

--
Carey Matthew Black
Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP)
ARS = Action Request System(Remedy)

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Solution = People + Process + Tools
Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two.


On Feb 6, 2008 8:14 AM, Bardsley, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> **
> Does anyone know of any way to speed up the time it takes for the 
> email engine to process outgoing messages between AR System Email 
> Messages form and the Exchange server?
>
> When we went live with ITSM 7.0.2 we decided to go with the out of box

> email notifications which has caused a large spike in the number of 
> outgoing emails our system generates.  In our 5.6 system we did not 
> generate quite as many outgoing group notifications as are created 
> using the out of box notifications in 7.  During heavy volume parts of

> the day our email engine is getting backed up and sends messages out 
> at about a rate of 3 to 5 messages a second.  If a few hundred 
> messages get created over a few minutes period there ends up being a 
> delay between the create time in AR System Email Messages and the time

> they are sent to the customers and users.  There is no problem with 
> the rate messages get created in the form just a slow up in getting
them sent out.
>
> Support recommended that I patch the Email Engine up to Patch 005 
> which seems to have increased the amount of messages sent out by about

> 1 a second but this was not as much of an improvement as I would have 
> liked to have seen.
>
> I played with NumberOfSenderTreads= setting in the 
> EmailDaemon.Properties file but this seems to have no effect at all.  
> I have played with the polling interval but the issue is not the rate 
> of times the AR Server connects to the mail server but how many 
> messages it can process once the connection is made.
>
> We are running ARS 7.0.01
>
> ~Mike Bardsley

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