Read Policy can only be Normal, Read Ahead, or Adaptive Read Ahead. Hyper-threading is definately running, I will make that change as well.
Thank you Neil Olson IT Department Grand View College Des Moines, Iowa ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Christopher Checca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:10:36 -0600 >The RAID sounds correct, but can Read Policy = disabled? > >The Hyper-Threading is controlled in the BIOS at boot up, you can tell if it >is on by running task manger, if there is four processors listed and it's >only a two processor machine then Hyper-Threading is on. > >Christopher Checca >Packard Transport, Inc. >IT Department >24021 South Municipal Dr >PO Box 380 >Channahon, IL. 60410 >815 467 9260 >815 467 6939 Fax >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.packardtransport.com > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Olson >Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:38 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] [very long message]Web Messaging...Page Not >Displayed Error > >Chris- > >Just checked my config on my RAID card, is as follows: >Read Policy: Normal >Write Policy: Write thru >Cache Policy: Direct I/O >Virtual sizing : Disabled >Stripe Size :64K >Span Depth: 1 >Drive State: optimal >Size: 70006 MB > >So, if I am deciphering correctly, these settings match what you are >suggesting or am I not deciphering correctly? Seems like each manufacturer >calls is something just a bit different. > >Where would I find the setting to turn off hyper-threading,...bios setting, >or System properties, ->processors (I'm not finding it here if it is >supposed to be here)? > >Neil Olson >IT Department >Grand View College >Des Moines, Iowa > > > > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: "Christopher Checca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:02:29 -0600 > >>Just by chance try turning off the RAID read-adhead and write-back cache. >>I've seen problems with some RAID cards that cause wired things on web >>servers, that said I've never had a problem with IMail and my DELL PERC >RAID >>card. You may also want to make sure Hyper-Threading is turned off. Had >>problems on some of my Citrix Servers with Windows 2000 and Hyper-Threading >>being slow ... once disabled the server ran much better. >> >>Christopher Checca >>Packard Transport, Inc. >>IT Department >>24021 South Municipal Dr >>PO Box 380 >>Channahon, IL. 60410 >>815 467 9260 >>815 467 6939 Fax >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>www.packardtransport.com >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Olson >>Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:39 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [IMail Forum] [very long message]Web Messaging...Page Not >Displayed >>Error >> >>Server Specs (freshly formatted and re-installed OS Jan 17th) >>DUAL P4 Xeon 2.4 GHz Processors >>2 GB RAM >>System disk (2) 36Gb RAID 1 >>DATA disk (2) 72Gb RAID 1 >>RAID card LSI MegaRAID U320-2 (128 Mb of RAM) >>Diskeeper runs every night >>3COM 10/100 Secure NIC (3CR990b-97) >>Win2K3 Standard >>IMAIL 8.15 >>Declude Virus and JunkMail >>Fprot >> >> >>Don't really know what else to try, Web Messaging is so inconsistent that >>Faculty and Students are refusing to use our email system. >> >>This all started about ten months ago, when our web messaging would crawl >to >>a halt whenever an email msg was sent to one of our [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>(approx 2000 addresses large). At that point, Web Messaging was at least >>stable, slow but did not receive page cannot be displayed. Back then we >>were running v 8.05 HF2. The Imail support suggested that we switch from a >>MS Access DB to MS SQL to improve performance. So, we did last fall (Sept >>2004) and ever since then users are experiencing page can not be displayed >>errors randomly. Sometimes it is when they are first logging in, other >>times it is when they have clicked on reply, or clicked on address book, or >>clicked send message, or tried to delete msgs. I had a case open with them >>since Oct 3rd, 2004 and after numerous suggestions from them, (tuning down >>the parameters of SQL to only use 1 processor and 1 Gb of RAM, adjusting >the >>page file size to triple that of the actual RAM)by late November the only >>answer I could get wa >> s, "Have you tried upgrading to v 8.14". Th >> >>So, we upgraded to 8.14, the problem was then pronounced by a factor of >ten. >>This is when students and faculty started complaining. Most staff are using >>an email client, so they are not affected. >> >>Still dealing with Imail support, I granted them remote access into the box >>so they could check things out. After that they had said everything looks >>fine, but then suggested that we switch back to MS Access because our DB is >>only 5 MB and that the overhead of SQL out weighed the performance gain. I >>formatted the server on Jan17th and then switched back to MS Access. >> >>The latest solution that I have tried is purchasing a 10/100 server class >>3Com NIC (ref an earlier thread "Imail and NIC issues" as well as a >>suggestion from Herschel Jones) >> >>With the 3com NIC I have noticed a big change myself. In fact I have only >>received Page can not be displayed once since the install, it has been >about >>three days. But others are still having the problem. It is very >>inconsistent, I myself could go 2,3,4 days and not have any errors, but >then >>the very next day be fighting "page not displayed" >> >>My latest experiment was at 3:00 AM in the morning. I turned off POP3 and >>IMAP, and rebooted the box. Used TCPview to see how many active >connections >>the box had, it had less than a page worth (15-20). Still I was getting >>page cannot be displayed. >> >>So, anyone have something that I should try or look at? I am surprised it >>has gone on this long, but now the Administration is asking that we look >>into a different email system, even though we just put Imail in in Aug >2003. >> >> >>An error that keeps popping up in the log "10054 malicious..." >>which on the imail support site says to disable any power mangmt on the >NIC, >>which has been done. >> >>Neil Olson >>IT Department >>Grand View College >>Des Moines, Iowa >> >> >>--- >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> >>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/ >>--- >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> > > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/
