Reply to: Len Conrad
Re: [IMail Forum] Spool and Local Mail Delivery Delays? on Friday 12:18:42 PM
Thanks, Len.
I am certain it is not defrag or oversize mailboxes... I have
been getting a few messages with only two lines of header. Would
this qualify as a Zombie confusing the server?
I feel just like a Zombie when my server does this. <g>
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Roger Heath
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>>I have been struggling for several weeks now trying to figure out
>>why mail keeps backing up on my server. It seems local mail takes
>>all day to get delivered and it did not before.
L> should be instantaneous.
>> I know spool
>>problems have been discussed a lot here but I have not really had
>>such problems until recently. When I used to use the Send One or
>>Send All buttons before all would work well, and I would normally
>>get the popup notices that the mail was delivered especially on
>>local messages, but not any more.
>>
>>It seems POP access slows down too as SMTP32 processes stay open
>>(50 max) and local mail just sits there all day.
L> well, having 50 SMTP processes open smells to me like zombies, not
L> workers. esp since POP slows as the zombies do their Monster Mash and eat
L> CPU cycles.
>>DNS is not an issue
L> hmm, for local delivery, no :))
>>and mail does get delivered eventually.
L> but very slowly.
>> Am I
>>missing something though because mail is just not being expedited
>>like it was before.
L> The usual suspects:
L> somebody has started sending badly formatted msgs that's zombi-ing the SMTP
L> processes. move all imail/spool to imail/spool/save and see if sending
L> goes fast.
L> nightmarishly fragmented disk that causes SMTP processes to zombie on as
L> they poop out trying to traverse the NTFS file table that is nutz, and
L> 1000's of mailbox files each in 10,000 fragments.
L> nightmarishly huge mailboxes, 500 mb, 1 gb, that SMTP processes zombie on as
L> they try to get to the End of It All, which is worsened by preceding item.
L> Fragmented dynamic swap file intermixed with your mailbox tree.
L> Len
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