Found the culprit. Somehow the mcshield service got enabled. btw - even though it was originally set up to exclude the imail folders, there is still enough overhead involved with determining if a file should be scanned or excluded, that it kills server performance (which is why we had it disabled from the start)
Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure solutions. (949) 584-1514 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Shanbrom (Ipswitch)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP performance starts off great, then... > Cloud be a highly fragmented pagefile? > > Eric S > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:50 AM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP performance starts off great, then... > > > > All look good in perfmon. ANything else to look for? > > > > Regards, > > > > David Gregg > > dgSoft Internet Services > > Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure > > solutions. > > (949) 584-1514 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Eric Shanbrom (Ipswitch)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:24 PM > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP performance starts off great, then... > > > > > > > Sure sounds OS related.. I say this as you say cycling the service has > no > > > effect. I would take a look at Perfmon stats on paged/non-paged memory > and > > > disk I/O...For this level of benchmarking, I wouldn't even think of > using > > > the task manager > > > > > > Eric S > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "David Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:21 PM > > > Subject: [IMail Forum] IMAP performance starts off great, then... > > > > > > > > > > Has anybody noticed after a server reboot, the IMAP peformance is > > > > exceedingly fast, then in a matter of 1-2 minutes (or less), starts to > > > slow > > > > down. Performance is never unacceptably slow, but there is quite a > > > > slow-down compared to that which is experienced after a reboot. Note > > that > > > > stopping/restarting IMAP services does not affect initial performance. > > > > > > > > No problems with disk I/O, utilization of CPUs, or memory usage. Not > > even > > > > related to client connections. > > > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/ > 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/
