Daniel: Non-expert $.02 -- I think it is generally agreed that regardless of the Win O/S, having defragged drives is good. I put Diskkeeper on this weekend and discovered that my mailbox drive (12GB), while reporting 35% free, was so badly fragmented that almost no complete clusters were free. 6-7 runs of Diskkeeper made little impact, including a boot-time run. Turned out to be great excuse to buy the additional drive I wanted, but had not been allowed. Putting in 60GB just for mailboxes and will daily run Diskkeeper.
I see the idea behind stopping services -- just maybe for the first run. But Diskkeeper will skip in use files. If you run daily (at low volume times) it will eventually get to it. Its an ongoing issue anyway. Ok - maybe just $.01 worth. John (We're small time compared to others on the list (one domain; 9,000 users; 2M+ emails/yr.) Daniel Ivey wrote: > > I am relatively new to Imail, just setting it up about a month ago. I have > been reading about using Diskkeeper on the Imail server and was wondering > how many other users use it and how often? When I spoke with a Tech Support > representative, he said that it really doesn't matter and that as long as I > wasn't having any problems, to leave well enough alone. He also mentioned > that I should stop all processes if I decided to run Diskkeeper. Just > wondering what settings everyone else uses and how it works for you. > > Daniel > > ========================== > Daniel Ivey > GCR Company / GCR Online > Voice: 434 - 570 - 1765 > Fax: 434 - 572 - 1981 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
