Set your page file to 3X Ram and see if that does anything. I doubt it is set to that if you used the default setup
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolf Tombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Slow Web Messaging - Corrupt MBX Files? > Dave, > > You are not alone. Although the slowness I'm experiencing in Webmail is not as > acute as the one you are experiencing I too am having a similar problem. I had > been running an eval version of iMail 7.13 and Webmail just screamed. Then, I > made the leap and bought iMail. Before installing the "real version" I went ahead > and rebuilt the server so it is a clean install of the OS with all the latest > service patches and no "dead wood" from any previous applications. I installed > iMail 7.14 and Webmail and now find that Webmail takes significantly longer to > login to and access an inbox (even an empty one) and also takes significantly > longer to open any message in a folder. I don't know what the problem might be as > this is a high powered server with a lot of RAM and iMail is the only thing > running on the box at present. > > I'm cutting my customer base over to iMail this weekend. Fortunately, most of my > users don't use Webmail. Still it is distressing to see how slow it is when the > eval version was so fast! > > Wolf > > Dave Parfrey wrote: > > > Scott, > > > > The mailbox was 50MB. After we finished recreating the mailbox, we deleted > > the new index and then opened it. IMail recreated the index in a second or > > so. I've also seen Imail index a dozen or so mailboxes within a couple of > > seconds (on the old, slow machine.) We are sometimes able to fix speed > > issues by deleting all the indexes for a user and letting IMail recreate them. > > > > There's something definitely wrong with that mailbox. Recreating the index > > doesn't solve the speed problems, going to each page of messages causes > > another 5 minute wait. > > > > As long as I've been (mostly) lurking on this list, I've never seen anyone > > mention a utility to fix or recreate a mailbox. Does one exist? > > > > Thanks - Dave > > > > At 03:49 PM 3/21/2003, you wrote: > > > > >>Since we're going to be moving to a beefier server soon (we're adding > > >>another several thousand users), I have a brand new, currently unused, > > >>server to play with. I created a test domain and user, and dumped the > > >>main.mbx file into it. It took about 5 minutes to display the first page > > >>of messages! There were 200 messages in the mailbox, and it's an unused > > >>dual-proc 2.5 gHz Xeon server. During this time, the CPU's were "pegged" > > >>at 50%. Obviously, something's wrong. > > > > > >Actually, it may be that nothing is wrong. > > > > > >You took a mailbox with 200 messages (1MB? 20MB?), and IMail needed to > > >index it, since you didn't copy the index file over. 5 minutes does seem > > >excessive, though. > > > > > >>I then created a new mailbox, copied the messages over (with Web > > >>Messaging), deleted the old file, and renamed the new file back to > > >>main.mbx. This time, the message display was instantaneous. > > > > > >That's because copying over the new files, IMail automatically updated the > > >index. > > > > > >>Does anyone know what's happening? Is there a utility available to fix > > >>problem mailboxes? We've occasionally had weird problems with mailboxes > > >>in the past, but nothing like this. > > > > > >Most likely, the problem is simply the index creation (which may take > > >longer when dealing with a .mbx file with no index, since IMail has to > > >assume something is wrong if the index file isn't there). > > > > > > -Scott > > >--- > > >Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. > > >Declude Virus: Catches both viruses and vulnerabilities in E-mail, with no > > >annual licensing fees. > > > > > >--- > > >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > > >(http://www.declude.com)] > > > > > > > > >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/ > > > 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/
