You are lacking RAM and processing power. A celeron is definitely not up to
the task for all the services you have running on this server. You should
replace the Celeron with a Pentium III with 256 K or even better 512 K of
cache on the chip since your motherboard probably supports a PIII chip as
well as your current Celeron processor. Also add another 128 MB of RAM for
a minimum total of 256 MB. A bigger boost would be to make sure the RAM is
133 MHz in speed which sells wholesale for $49 per 128 MB right now. Swap
space is really just hard drive space trying to act as RAM. If you are
using an EIDE or ATA hard drive then you should really just add more RAM.
Even using SCSI 3 drives for swap can't match the boost more RAM can give.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:27 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] excruciatingly slow POP mail problem
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie iMail administrator. Ever since I installed iMail (a month
> ago) I have been amazed (and disappointed) how slow it is to receive POP
> mail from the server. Bandwidth isn't the issue - we have plenty
available
> on the server and client end.
>
> Here is the server specs:
>
> NT 4.0 sp6
> Celeron 566 Mhz Processor
> 128MB RAM
> swap file size:128Mb
>
> About 50 users, not heavy users either.
>
> Webmail is installed and running but even when I stop that service
> performance is pretty dismal.
>
> Other software installed:
>
> I'm also running IIS 4 on the same box and also Media House Statistics
> Server (which also has its own web server).
> IIS is running fine - serving out pages like there's no tomorrow! But the
> performance of iMail sucks!
>
> I think there could be a couple of problems here - someone else wrote that
> their swap file was something like 2 GB - should I be increasing the size
> of mine?
>
> Some other posts mentioned having another web server (apart from web
> messaging) on the same server doesn't work too well. I have 2 other web
> servers (IIS and the stats server). Can't afford another server at the
> moment...
>
> I've applied all the available patches:
>
> iMail install disk --> 6.05
> impatch606.exe
> im606svs.exe
> imsrvpatch.exe
>
> Your opinions are greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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