>The problem appears to be solved.. We are using the Imail database and >have over 1000 domains per box. The problem seems to be directly related >to both the inbox size, fragmentation and who is logged in via web >messaging.
ah, this sounds VERY encouraging >When a few people log on who have large mail boxes, it seems >to cause this problem. cool, some hard data. >It could also have to do with the swap file size >which we increased to 1500-2000 MB's. can you figure out WTH is being swapped? Seems the this slack-jawed desktop OS wants to swap out no matter how much memory you give it. A much better solution is to stop the swapping completely and pump up the memory. > I used the defrag program that >comes with Win2k to analyze and defrag. I had to do it multiple times >and it took a long time because it kept stalling. get a better defragger. The freebies from MS are mostly junk. How much free space on that partition? It sure looks like NTFS is way too sensitive to fragmentation to be an infrastructure FS. when the apps blow up due to fragmentation .... >I'm not what exactly fixed the problem, just it has gone away. probably a combination of all three, or four. I would suggest slipping in another, OVER-sized disk and copy your mailbox tree to that. This effectively defrags it and gives you more space to defrag in place. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways 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/
