I'd have to agree with the microsoft upgrade as the root cause of the pop3 concern. It was suspect for us as well and everything worked great before the security upgrades.
~Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [IMail Forum] pop3 response delay We've had the problem only with OE users. We had them up the timeout to 2 minutes and it fixes the problem. One customer called Microsoft for help and was told a security upgrade caused the pop3 process to slow considerably and it would be addressed in a future update. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:47 AM Subject: RE: AW: [IMail Forum] pop3 response delay > Yep, we've addressed all of those usual suspects you mentioned. We're > heavily partitioned across 3 RAID1 spindles, with a nice RAID controller. > And we defragmented just yesterday. > > pop3d32.exe averages 5% CPU and 5.5MB RAM during the problem times. The > system total for CPU is ~50% and RAM 300MB (out of 2GB). The number of > threads pop3d32.exe uses will spike up to 45 or so, and the number of > handles will spike up to 250. There's definitely alot of disk IO going on > w/ pop3d32.exe, but nothing in particular spikes. > > I'm at a loss as to what to try next. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AW: [IMail Forum] pop3 response delay > > > > >but my pop3d still make problems. > > "obviously" you've addressed all The Usual Suspects of mega-sized .mbx > files, dedicated disks/disk partitions for spool and mbs storage, purging > stale files in spool/ and spool/web, defragging? > > can you watch Task Manager mem/mhz/disk while provoking the problem to see > if anything spikes? > > Len > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
