Yes the server also hosts mail and provides POP and Web mail access. Is
IMail efficient with these services or not?
I am using my own DNS server (ie the one in Windows on the same box).
Goran Jovanovic
The LAN Shoppe
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> Do any of these servers provide pop/imap/webmail services. We have a
> couple
> identical servers, but the ones that provide ancillary services tend
to
> consume more CPU.
>
> For your type of volume it should be rare to see 25+ declude processes
> running at one time. From my experience when I have seen this it
always
> pointed to a flaky or malfunctioning DNS server. The other caveat is
> depending on how many and the type of body filters you have could
cause
> this.
>
> Something does seem wrong if your driving the cpu at 100% with a
message
> volume of 2000 messages per hour with that type of box. Again,
depending
> on your configuration of Declude this type of performance could be
> normal..
>
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> Darrell
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>
>
> Goran Jovanovic writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that the answer to this question is a big "it depends" but I
am
> > trying to get a feel if I have the server mostly configured
correctly or
> > am I missing things.
> >
> > I have a 1.4 GHz Celeron CPU with 512MB RAM and a RAID 1 hard drive
> > system. We are pushing the CPU to 100% and close to 100% a lot of
the
> > time during core business hours. Declude log files report that we
are
> > processing 12 to 15 thousand messages a day. Based on a quick script
I
> > created I am seeing some hours where we are dealing with 2000
messages
> > in that hour. I have also looked at Task Manager and at times I see
20
> > to 25 Declude processes running concurrently.
> >
> > I have a number of BODY search filters that I am skipping if a
bypass
> > filter was triggered (for things like PDF attachments etc). I also
have
> > two AV scanners F-Prot and McAfee.
> >
> > So the question is: With this setup should I be able to a lot more
> > messages per hour/day or am I lucky that I am doing as many as I am.
> >
> > I would appreciate any thoughts/speculation etc
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> >
> > Goran Jovanovic
> > The LAN Shoppe
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