Bryan,
When this happens and you get the response from POP3, what are the last 2
numbers in that line? The first represents the number of connections since
service started and the last, the current number of connections to the
service. The last is usually a small number (1-10) unless you have a very
large number of users, or something is leaving connections open, or
something is causing the connections to take significantly longer than
normal to close.
Do you have NT Auditing enabled? How about IMail logging (for any/all
services)? You might try disabling these, to see if that has any effect.
What other programs or services are installed and/or running on this PC? Any
AntiVirus software?
Attached is a setting for Performance Monitor that checks the Processor
Queue Length. If this shows above 20 (average between 0-20 should be the
expected) on the graph, for more than short periods of time, then NT is not
completing tasks in a normal manner and you need to find out what is slowing
this down. MS site may have more on this subject.
I tried connecting to both POP3 and SMTP service, but all seemed pretty
normal when I did.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Cowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> I too am having similar problems, Dual PII 500 256MB Tons of free space,
> dedicated server. The pop3/smtp services remain active and running but
> doing a telnet to port 110 gives me my welcome message but never makes it
to
> the point where entering a username is possible. Since the service is
still
> running, monitor and other 3rd party utils think it's still it's working.
> Stopping and restarting the service clears it up....for a while.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 7:24 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Background: I am running iMail 6.05 on NT 4 sp6a. PII 450, 128 MB ram,
> 4+
> > GB free on an 8 GB SCSI drive. The mail files themselves are being
stored
> > via a SAMBA share on a Linux box via a UNC address.
> >
> > Often, 2 -5 times each day all the service seem to die on the mail
server.
> > POP3 sessions stall, Web messaging sits for 10-15 minutes trying to
login.
> > Those are the services that are the most noticeable. There is less than
> 10%
> > CPU usage at this time and less than 60 MB of memory being used.
> >
> > Stopping all services in Imail administrator and restarting the ones I
> need
> > SMTP, POP3, IMAP, IMONITOR, PSERVE, WEB, etc seems to work for a few
hours
> > but I usually end up having to reboot the box.
> >
> > I recently doubled the Virtual Memory to 256 MB which seemed to help for
> > about 2 weeks. But the problem is back.
> >
> > Has anyone dealt with this sort of thing before ? I could use some
> advice.
> >
> > Jeff Knight
> > INFOWEST
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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