What port do you have the web messaging running on? Nimda and a few others will try to break in to standard http port and it can look like a DoS attack causing the high CPU usage?
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cody Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:18 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] iwebmsg.exe hogs CPU cycles > > The last two mornings, I have found my Imail server (W2K, SP2, Imail version > 6.06) slow and the culprit is the iwebmsg.exe. (Prior to this, the email > server has been running fine with no problems for about a year). That > service is consuming 99% of the cpu cycles. I can stop and restart the > service in the Imail admin console and it fixes the problem. I have > researched the KB and found only the following information in an article > describing the 'fixes' in the release I am running. > > Web Messaging > - Fixed a problem in which performing a search in a large mailbox would > appear to hog the CPU. > > Armed with this information, I tried looking in the log files for web > messaging to see if one of my customers is doing such a search. I have not > been able to find any references to a 'search' cgi or similar. > > Any other suggestions/advise for this issue? > > Thanks, > Cody > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > WK 817.329.5275 > FX 817.329.1189 > www.intercityweb.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/ > 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/
