Hi Jim,
We had the same problem. Couldn't find any logical reason. We have 4000
users in SQL and about 200 in Imail. When we moved Imail off the box with
the web server the problems went away. Hasn't happened since the move 6
weeks ago.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McPhee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Web messaging 100%?
> I agree it's IMPOSSIBLE to catch it through the logs.. I've tried!!
>
> My Imail Server pegs my Dual Xenon pIII's almost on a daily basis
> (literally). In January I removed Imail completely and reinstalled the
> whole thing with the then current patches (6.05?) - the problem stopped.
It
> started again 2 weeks later in February. I'm now down to the following
> potential solutions:
>
> - Yesterday I increased my page file size to 3000kb on my D partition,
and
> have had no new %100 CPU runs yet (knock on wood!)
> - I'm running it on my IIS server, so I'm going to move it to it's own
box
> in the coming weeks. Along with the box move, I'm going to dump the user
> database to a SQL box, because I've got 10,000 accounts with 10GB of user
> files - and am still using Imail's Internal Database (OUCH!). (My
> predecessor left a lot to be desired)
>
> I realized yesterday I was maxing out my page file/free space (STUPID
NEWBIE
> MISTAKE!!), and am hoping this helps. I'll keep a line open with all you
> guys going through the same thing and maybe we'll get this solved..
>
> Jim McPhee
> IS Manager
> NuEworld.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Web messaging 100%?
>
>
> That's where I'm at now ... There is so much activity
> around the time it happens, it's hard to spot anything
> in common.
>
> I've got the mail server task manager in a little
> window and I watch it out of the corner of my eye.
> I've sync'ed my watch to the server's NTP clock and
> should be able to correlate the logs to a CPU trace if
> I'm awake when it happens.
> > Rather than just accept it, you can do something about it. Try to track
> down
> > what is causing it. It doesn't randomly go to 100% (it has never
happened
> > here). Something causes it. Take a look at the log files around the
time
> that
> > it starts, and see if there is something common in the logs around that
> time.
> > See if there are any files in the spool directory from about that time.
> Is
> > someone searching through a multimegabyte mail file?
>
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