Daniel,
Right now, increase swap space to 2-3X RAM. That is the value recommended by
MS. RAM increase should also help and don't forget to up swap space after
new RAM added. Someone else also suggests that swap space be spread across 2
HD.
Daniel Donnelly
________________________________________________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:27 AM
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
>
>
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
> An Archive of this list is available at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
>
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
