Daniel,
I couldn't quite understand from your message exactly how many boxes you had
but it sounded like you were running the Media House Stats on a different
box than IIS. We were using Media House Stats, IIS and Imail on the same
server. That seemed to work well but we started having problems with the
Imail web client not responding after about 7 days of uptime. When we got
new machines we put Imail on it's own box and it's been working great for
about 45 days now but we still have the Media House Stats and IIS5 on the
same box (and have now for 2 years) and haven't seen any problems between
these two.
So, if you're running the Stats server on a different box than IIS you'd
probably see a much more stable environment by putting the stats server on
the same box as IIS and moving Imail to its own box.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] excruciatingly slow POP mail problem
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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