On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, DOLIST Technical Center wrote: > Well I still trying to get further investigation to find what's wrong, > related to my previous message bellow. Here what I found this night as > customers become angry because we don't provide burst as before :/ and > this happen since around 3 weeks now. > > David asked me to send him the spool tree, but I was to complex to > archive and compress. This would have be the very latest solution. > > After storing the whole tree, spool and other executable on another > machine, I format the partition, then recopy / install all the > directories at the same place image to be sure this is not a disk > problem, although chkdsk /f was run 2 times @ reboot without any > problems (disk are raid an mirrored). > > Well exactly the same, Xmail take around 40 mn to start (I think > because of around 70.000 files in spool, if I take 2 files par message > - one in rsnd folder and one in slog one - it was around 35.000 > "real" messages waiting there - none where in mess folder this time). > > We run 3 campaigns with more than 50.000 messages as usually. Xmail > accepts all mails without any problems, but this began again. No > message where sent out, or very slowly. I round the server between all > our DNS servers (x4), no problem, and as others Xmail servers (x3) were > working properly - but with a very low number of e-mail compared to > the primary poster we are talking about. > > After restarting Xmail some messages were sent out again and it stops > very quickly, the burst was 90% during one or two minute when usually > we can maintain 90% during many hours. The spool have now more than > 120.000 files (not messages). > > At this moment, I decide to cry and invoke the SMTP god in the virtual > skies :p > > When... what about the dnscache ? 100 folders, and stored in it more > than 160.000 domains. Well, I decide to delete all of them and start > Xmail cache from DNS scratch. > > After that I restart Xmail. My god, this burst ! :) I wipe away my > tears :) and waiting this morning for new campaigns and not messages > already stored in spool folders in the retry process. > > 4 new campaigns with around 40.000 messages have been sent this > morning, and the burst was there, maintened at 90% during all the > sending, around 50 mn. Wonderful ! :) > > Now, how can we explain this ? Have you see something like in your > configuration. I was very near to try EmailEngine from Lyris that > announce the fastest SMTP server, as LSMTP from Lsoft.
This is a free world man, you can try whatever you like. My suggestion is to try another *OS*, because an OS's file system that slows down performance with an average of only 1600 files inside a folder is, by definition, *crap*. Last time I checked, XMail was 10 ( ten ) times faster on Linux respect to Windows on the same HW. Not 2, not even 4, but 10. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
