Me too, i'm running win2k on a dual processor 933 p3 with 1 gi memory and it's just humming along at low cpu usage....
just my 2 cents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Bramble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude v1.75 bogs down the server > Keith, > > Assuming that it's a cascade effect from being near capacity, have you > taken a look at saving processing and/or memory from other tasks. For > instance, real-time anti-virus software can cause significant load on a > busy machine. Even if you have it excluding log files and the like, > there are some things that you might want to exclude as well. Norton > Corporate has a real-time scan monitor that recently showed me that > every time a user's .MBX file is written to, IMail creates a temporary > .L file, and excluding that file type can save lots of scan time on a > busy mail server. There's also a file in IMail's directory that changes > every minute, imonitor.dat. > > Regarding your setup, I'm surprised at the hit you are taking. I > probably have a lot less volume, but in watching task manager on Win2k, > it's almost impossible for me to catch sight of Declude's appearances, > and it might pull 2% max. I run a dual 1 Ghz PIII RAID 5 system with 1 > GB of memory. That's not all that much more powerful than what you are > using. Seems kind of strange. Maybe Win2k is actually that much > better??? I'm currently runing Declude 1.75i4 with several extensive > text filters. > > Matt > > > Keith Johnson wrote: > > >Scott, > > The DECODE OFF option; what would it not catch (i.e. Spam) had the option been turned on? I understand Base64, but what kind of HTML decoding? We have a server at capacity as well, but we are not adding anymore customers to it, however, at times the CPU is at 100% which causes the Web Messaging to be slow. However, I don't want to sacrifice not catching some spam either. Thanks for the info. > > > >Keith > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Fri 9/5/2003 5:45 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: > > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude v1.75 bogs down the server > > > > > > > > > > >After upgrading from Declude v1.65 to v1.75 I noticed my Imail server > > >taking quite a performance hit. After upgrading my CPU usage went from > > >50%-55% up to 98%-100%. Reverting back to v1.65 returned the CPU usage > > >back to normal. I am running Imail version 7.07. The server is running > > >NT4.0 SP 6A. The server is a dual Pentium 550 with 512k of ram and a raid 5. > > > > > >Has anyone else experienced this type of performance hit? Would Upgrading > > >to Imail Version 8 or upgrading to Windows 2000 server help? > > > > If you were already at 50%-55%, you're close to the limits of the server. > > > > I would recommend adding a line "DECODE OFF" to the > > \IMail\Declude\global.cfg file to see if that alleviates the problem (that > > will prevent some base64 and HTML decoding that v1.75 does, that could use > > some extra CPU time). > > > > -Scott > > > > > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
