I'm a bit late on this thread, but...I've been running IMail for 3 weeks now
on a Dell PEdge 1650 using GB NICs w/ZERO CPU or speed problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Ryan [mailto:tryan@;lms.kent.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD server

I don't think my particular problem is related to 7.13. I think it would
have happened with any of the 7.x versions.  Like I mentioned several times,
my production server is 7.13 on a 3 year old NT4 Dell server and smokes.  So
does a 2000/AD test server running on an old PC.  Just this really fast new
Dell server running 2000 and AD that has issues with IMail.

An update:

I haven't done much lately...get a couple servers hacked and normal
production just seems to grind to a halt.  :-(

I *did* run FileMon from sysinternals.com and tried logging into Webmail.  I
saw an incredible amount of disk activity where it seemed to open every
folder and read every message individually.  That is, if I had 1000 messages
in a folder, it would open, read, and close that file 1000 times!  Then do
all the other folders.  All this just at login!  Jeesh.

Considering this, I thought it might be possible that there might be some
disk I/O issues.  I went to load the RAID controller software (maybe read
ahead caching would help?) and found it reporting that I didn't have access.
Since I was logged in as the domain admin, I thought it odd.  I'm currently
working this out with Dell support.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the 3C905C that I ordered so that I can
continue the troubleshooting with IpSwitch who think it's a network problem.

I'll keep everyone posted.

--Todd.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bruner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:28 AM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD server


> So, would you guys say that it would be best "not" to upgrade to 7.13 and
> wait for feed-back on the next update..??
>
> -Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@;list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Todd Ryan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD
> server
>
>
> Burzin,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Although the speed symptom sounds similar, my CPU
> utilization is near zero.  That's why it's so perplexing.  If *SOMETHING*
> was eating up cycles, I could track it down.  But nothing seems to be
> hogging any resources.  It's just plain slow.
>
> --Todd.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Burzin Sumariwalla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD
server
>
>
> > Hi Todd,
> >
> > I've been following your thread because I experienced similar problems.
> > In my case the issues was with POP3 and the Web Messaging services
> > after moving to 7.13 and a new server.  The CPU utilization was so
extreme
> > that I could not do any Imail administrative work via the web interface.
> >
> > I used the 3Com 980, and while it did not solve the problems completely,
> > it made them more bearable.
> >
> > Burzin
> >
> >
> > At 10:50 AM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Oh!  Good thoughts.  I know on-access A/V is turned off.  But I didn't
> know
> > >about indexing service.  Got excited for a second.  But sadly, it is
not
> > >running.
> > >
> > >IpSwitch says they have had similar complaints about Intel NICs and
> almost
> > >any Gigabit NIC.  So I'm in the process of tracking down a new 3com
NIC.
> > >Put an older one (3c905B) and got a BSOD on bootup.  Not good.  Will
only
> > >try this one more time.  Can't afford to be BSOD'ing a production DC to
> try
> > >to resolve this thing.
> > >
> > >Keep the thoughts coming!  ;-)
> > >
> > >--Todd.
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Patrick Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:19 AM
> > >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD
> server
> > >
> > >
> > > > Just a thought, do you have on-access a/v scanning enabled? Indexing
> > > > service?
> > > > -Patrick
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@;list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Todd Ryan
> > > > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 8:58 AM
> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to
2000/AD
> > > > > server
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