You should put NT and IMAIL on another box (after copying the IMAIL folder
over), then import the registry settings. Put that machine in the others
place for a week and see if the problem re-occurs. If your server is a
p-166 you could probably dig up a PC that could hold the load for a week to
test...
Another thought is Disk Fragmentation. I know that seems lame, but if you
don't do it ever and the machine has been running for a long time (say a
year) you could have some serious fraggy goin' on. I have seen an NT
machine do a "Lazarus" (come back from the dead) after a good defrag, so now
I am a believer.
Last thing a 166 is no Spring chicken... could it be memory failure or other
hardware failure? My first suggestion would help determine that...
-V
PS Good Luck!
----- Original Message -----
From: David Gager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: IMail_Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:41 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Services unavailable
> Back in January, I inherited the duties of maintaining our internal NOC.
> The Imail Server is a Compaq Prosignia 500 - P-166 with 64 megs of Ram
> and a 4 gig HDD with two equal NTFS partitions. OS = NT 4.0, SP3 with
> all hot fixes. It has been purring along with Imail 4.07 for months.
> Imail is the only application on the system.
> Recently ( 2 weeks ago), the system began unexplainably crashing. There
> was no tell-tale BSOD, only irritated users who could not access their
> mail. Imail services, although still running, could not be accessed.
> Navigation of the system at this point was sluggish... to the point
> where it would freeze causing us to do a cold reboot. This would occur 2
> - 3 times a day. Nothing in the Apps or Sys logs show any erroneous
> activity. I have upgraded to SP 5, and re-installed Imail... no change.
> At one point, the perfmon counters I had set up on another machine
> showed Pool Nonpaged Memeory on the Mail server at over 6,000,000 bytes
> during one 'episode'. All other services were well below 20%.
> Sorry for being so drawn out, but it's been a busy couple of weeks.
> ;-)
> Has anyone else experienced anything along these lines? Curious that
> things were fine up until now.....
>
> --
> David Gager, MCP
> Network Support Specialist - Y2K Task Force
> Educational Service District 112
> 2500 NE 65th Ave, Vancouver, WA. 98661
> (360) 750-7502 ex. 387
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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