either you are getting really fragmented or you could be running low on disk space...Low disk space will result in less room for contig to use and make it work harder to keep moving fragments around to get the "contiguous"
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Bertram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 5:42 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Problem with Contig defragmentation > Hi, folks > I'm running Imail 8,05 with all patches and I'm using the Contig tool from Sysinternals for defragmentation of the mbx files in all user directories. > With a batch job I stop all the Imail services, run Contig and restart the services. > The job run every night for about 2 month and the average duration of whole defragmentation was about 10 to 15 minutes. > The result is a very good performance with WebMail in accessing the mailboxes. > > But for about a week the job needs all at once more then 3 hours. > What can be the cause of this. > > 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/
