Our server is as follows: Super Micro X5DPL -8 motherboard with Adaptec 2010S RAID card. 2 Intel Xeon processors 2GB RAM 5 SCSI HDD in RAID 5 with sixth drive in hot standby.
The OS - Applications and Spool are on the same RAID system (drive C). The spool started running well for the first two days but was growing. We determined that the queue/traffic/server capabilities ratio should see the queue vary slightly but not grow appreciably until accounts were added. This took into account current traffic patterns and volume. After the second day it became apparent that the spool manager was not operating as advertised so we started watching it VERY closely. Following is the spool size data we collected. Times are military (sorry x Navy) 1815 3 July 2003 1.26 GB 2.07 GB 262,422 Files in 7 Folders Deleted 23 old virus hold folders 1300 3 July 2003 1.04GB 1.76GB 228,547 Files 31 Folders Set Declude to NOT send email virus notices Spool Clean ran at 1000 Parameters set to delete files older than 7 days and logs older than 5 days 0800 3 Jul 2003 2.65 GB 3.91 GB 406,208 Files 29 Folders 0800 2 Jul 2003 2.59 GB 3.79 GB 381,659 Files 30 Folders 1500 1 Jul 2003 2.57 GB (Base Folder) 3.74 GB (Includes subfolders) 378,537 Files 29 Folders We switched to an older version (7.13) at 0001 on 5 July due to the sharp increase in spool size and the Queue manager stopping. We decided it was looking like a cascading failure of the entire system and that Imail was not compatible with 2003. FYI - 2003 registry is not transportable to NT 4.0. You'll have to use the "extract users" utility and the addusers command. Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kami Razvan Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail + Declude in Windows 2003 Hi Terry: Do you have 5-DISK SCSI configuration for everything? You mean you have 5 disks that has OS, spool, mailboxes all in one RAID array? I am not sure if this is the best of configurations. This is how we have ours: System: OS + Applications: 2 SCSI Drives - RAID 0+1 [Mirrored] Spool: 2 SCIS Drives- RAID 0+1 [Mirrored] Mailboxes: 5 SCSI drives: RAID 5 This is working well for us.. I am sure it can be further optimized.. Regards, Kami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Parks Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail + Declude in Windows 2003 Thanks for the info, finally got the command to turn it off should we decide to do so. We've heard both sides of the issue with PIX and can't find the definitive answer one-way or the other. What kinds of problems does having this enabled produce? Our issue is with the enormous build up of the spool directory. As far as we can tell it's as if Imail stockpiles email to deliver when it feels like it dependent on the size of the HDD in use (bigger drive, bigger spool). We also found that the spool manager would stop functioning at random. Our server is a 5-disk SCSI array (total 68+GB) on a dual 500+mhz system with 2GB ram. We were running Imail 8.01 until it got too troublesome. Now we dropped back to Imail 7.13 on a different server and it's performing much better. (FYI - the current server displayed the same symptoms when it was running 8.00 with hot fix 1) Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Childers Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail + Declude in Windows 2003 Terry, Like others have stated, I don't know exactly what you mean by stable. But, I notice you still have your PIX's "SMTP fixup protocol" enabled. You *will* have e-mail problems with this enabled. :-) You should turn this off. According to the archives, this was recommended to you back on the 26th of last month. This is the command: no fixup protocol smtp 25 HTH, ~Patrick --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/McAfee] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. 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