Bryan,
I'll await more info! BTW, keep PerfMon running and showing that Queue
Length to be sure it does not change when the problem occurs.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Cowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
> Thanks Daniel for the quick response.
>
> NT Auditing is disabled.
> Logging is disabled.
> No other software is running on this machine. Just the typical NT
services.
> The Processor queue length monitor shows almost nothing.
>
> WHEN it dies again I'll check the pop3 header.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Services stalling out
>
>
> > 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
> > ________________________________________________________
> >
> > ----- 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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