I have been waiting a long time for a fix for this. The only solution I
found, especially when you have more than 20k + mail boxes is upgrade the
server using a quad processor.
Keith
-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 5.05 Dies
>Don't try this at home! Web Messaging goes to 100% processor utilization
>and this kills the webmsg... phone rings, customer yells, you say try
>again... web msg goes to 100% ...
>
>:-0
>
>-V
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Gaudin Marius (Softec) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 10:08 AM
>Subject: AW: [IMail Forum] IMail 5.05 Dies
>
>
>Jeff,
>
>That's a known problem, caused by the iwebmsg service going to 100%. It
>happens to our mail server about once a month or so. We (and some other
list
>members) are using a workaround similar to this:
>
>Use NT Performance Monitor to define an Alert "if %Processor Time of
Process
>iwebmsg.exe is over 90%, then run the batchfile kill_iwm.cmd".
>
>The batchfile kill_iwm.cmd looks as follows:
>
>rem -------------- Begin of Listing
>
>@echo off
>rem --- Change to utility path, Save actual path
>pushd c:\batch
>rem --- Kill process (kill.exe is a utility)
>kill iwebmsg.exe
>rem --- Restart IMail Web Service
>net stop "IMail Web Service" /y
>net start "IMail Web Service" /y
>rem --- Write incident date and time to logfile (tm.exe is a utility)
>tm /l >> alert-iw.log
>echo. >> alert-iw.log
>rem --- Restore path
>popd
>
>rem -------------- End of Listing
>
>Then, save the alert definition into a .pma file and run this file from the
>startup group of your mail server. Of course, this tool has to run in
>foreground, which means you need to define an autologin if you want it all
>automatized.
>
>We're still using Imail 4.07. We bought the 5.0 version, but it is still
>waiting on the shelves until this error is fixed (perhaps with release
5.07?
>;-).
>
>Good luck, Marius
>
>-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Jeff Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Gesendet am: Freitag, 2. Juli 1999 01:41
>An: Imail_List
>Betreff: [IMail Forum] IMail 5.05 Dies
>
>We have been fighting an issue for several days now with IMail 5.05. It
>runs fine for several hours and then the processor on the system goes to
>100% and the SMTP service dies. The most bizarre thing about this problem
>is that we ran on 5.05 for almost a week with out any issues and now we
>can't run for more than 2 or 3 hours. I've investigated every possible
>cause I can think of from spammers to hackers but can't find aby evidence
of
>abuse on the system. We made no configuration changes to the system
either.
>We've run 4.0x for a long time and like the product but this is killing us.
>If anyone has had any similar experience or advice please feel free to
>reply. The process that most often runs out of control and kills the
>processor is the web messaging but some times SMTP just dies. The system
>is a dual PII 300 with 512MB of RAM and a 54GB hardware RAID array. There
>are currently around 40,000 mailboxes on the system. Any suggestions
would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Jeff Madison
>Chief Technology Officer
>SISNA, Inc
>(801)924-0900 x 101
>http://www.sisna.com
>
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