What kind of through-put are you handling on your server. I have yet to see any Gigabit cards that work in a heavily loaded mail environment. Also what kind of GB NIC?
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Amram, ENEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] IMail SLOW after moving to 2000/AD serve r > 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 > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus/McAfee NetShield] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > ------ > > > Burzin Sumariwalla Phone: (314) 994-9411 x291 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (314) 997-7602 > > > Pager: (314) 407-3345 > > > > > > Networking and Telecommunications Manager > > > Information Technology Services > > > St. Louis County Library District > > > 1640 S. 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