On defrag: We use Diskeeper on our systems with very good results. _M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [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? | | | | >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/ | |
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