Thanks Len, I'll keep monitoring. I use it twice a week but I haven't defragged the drive. That's next on the agenda.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:24:56 -0600 >How often should isplcln.exe be used it depends on how quickly old junk builds up in your spool directory > and how does it effect the >overall performance is webmessaging and the product itself. a huge spool directory, 1000's or 10's of 1000's of files, will slow horribly file searching of queue processing. Efficient queue processing is the foundation of a mail server's performance. Note that ispclean does not perform the other critical filesystem maintenance task of defragging. ispclean followed by full defragging is the best combo. Washboard abs and buns of steel. You should also have the spool directory in its own dedicated partition, even on its own dedicated disk. Just keeping the /spool directory clean does nothing to fight the defrag problem. And the defrag problem is worsened, both in operation and in maitenance, if the spool directory is buried in a 10 gb partion with 100k other dir's and files. Ignore the above if you have 200 accounts and 1000 msgs/day. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 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/ ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at rccc.cc.nc.us 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/
