Definately get Diskkeeper and defrag at least once a night. Set it and forget it.
Douglas Traylor MIS Department Harbison-Fischer Mfg Co. (817)297-2211 x210 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Andreou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:42 PM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] server performance / smtp not working > Definitely. We were seeing some rather strange behavior similar to what > you describe. The solution that eventually worked was to get a copy of > Diskkeeper and have it defrag the drives every 4 hours, which is probably > overkill, but at least once a day would be good. > > Jeff Andreou, Support Technician > ClarityConnect Inc. > > At 12:28 PM 3/1/2004 -0700, you wrote: > > >I bet this box has never been defragged (or at least hasn't in the 6 > >months I've been here). Is this maintenance I should be performing > >regularly on a mail server? > > > >Regards, > > > >Greg Cerveny, Applications Development > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sanford > >Whiteman > >Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:14 PM > >To: Greg Cerveny > >Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] server performance / smtp not working > > > > > > > The OS is on the basic layout, and IMail resides on the second drive > > > with a dynamic layout. There is no RAID configuration from what I > > > can tell. > > > >You would do well to use a recommended configuration which distributes > >functions across as many disk spindles as possible, as described in > >numerous places in the archives (search for "raid" and "web spool" to > >start). Barring other bugs--driver problems, broken hardware, disk > >corruption--your server will only respond as fast as your disk, and > >you're making one disk do logging, spooling, and mailbox duties, for > >example. > > > >--Sandy > > > > > >------------------------------------ > >Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist > >Broadleaf Systems, a division of > >Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. > >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! > > http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ > > > > > >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/
