I guess the other question is, do you see this lag and response time after a fresh boot? If not, it might be worthwile to find out what is the cause of the lag after running for a few days.
Douglas Traylor MIS Department Harbison-Fischer Mfg Co. (817)297-2211 x210 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Cerveny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:04 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] server performance / smtp not working 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 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/
