On defrag: We use Diskeeper on our systems with very good results.
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| -----Original Message-----
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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad
| Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:14 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 100% CPU usage problem FIXED?
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| >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
|
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