Hello Everyone,

I turned off all my antispam features on Friday, and for the first Monday in a month 
my mail server is chugging along and has not stopped up.  I have been noticing a bit 
of a lag when connecting to the outgoing mail.  

I telnet'd directly and it took a good 90 seconds for a confirmation to ehlo.  I then 
terminal serviced and checked my cpu usage through windows task manager and it's been 
up at 96-99% for the past hour or two.

This looks to me like we'll need faster cpus in this machine, or should we consider a 
load balancing solution between two servers?  Or should IMail be able to handle this 
load with these processors?

Our current machine is:
win2k sp4|imail 8.0.5 hf2
COMPAQ PROLIANT w/ dual pIII 600s | 768 ram
Approx 250 virtual domains w/ avg 4 users per domain

For an average weekday it appears to locally deliver 25k messages, and remotely 
deliver 17k messages.  I'm not sure on my Monday statistics (as I've just recently 
started taking these), but it's significantly higher.

Is there a tool that will count the users and domains for me?  Also, I'd like to look 
into seeing what sort of network traffic is occurring on the server.  Can anyone 
recommend a good utility for this?  Will netmon take care of me in this aspect? 

Regards,
Greg Cerveny


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