Yes - sure did! Seems nothing is wrong, but I beg to differ. The
installation is about 4 years old, so something is bound to go wrong
sooner or later. The new machine is working fine, so of course the
analysis of the old is put aside until I have time.
Greg
Chairman of the Bored wrote:
At 08:39 AM 3/18/2004, you wrote:
In my case, it was (and still is on that server) any folder,
including the simple 'My Computer' that contains only a few 'items'.
Can you say 'hosed'?
tried a chkdsk /f and a reboot?
-dd
Greg
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a tip on this topic...
When you suspect a directory has lots of files, right click the
folder and then left click the 'Properties' menu option to see how
many files are in the directory/folder.
If it has more than a couple thousand (or less depending on the PC's
horsepower), don't open that directory/folder unless you have to.
The Windows GUI has lots of work to do to dislay that nice, sorted,
iconified etc. directory listing. Try and use the command line
interface instead if you can.
And in regards to IMS, NEVER leave a folder open to one of the spool
directories; prein, incoming, holding, or a domain directory.
NT refreshes the directory listing on any open folder every few
seconds.
I have seen instances where I had an almost empty prein folder open,
and
accidentally left it open when I walked away. As files started to enter
the directory, it took NT longer to refresh the file listing. That
slowed
down the server, making it take longer to move files out of prein.
Which
means more files accumulated in prein, whcih means NT took longer to
refresh
wheich means it slowed down more ad. nauseum. You get the idea... I had
created my own prein backlog and server slowdown just because I left
the folder window open.
The right-click/properties trick is very handy to count files in a
spool
directory without opening it.
Hope this helps!
-Alan
I am pretty sure it is an OS/hardware issue as NT itself
takes forever to open a folder when you attempt to do so.
Like I said, not a solution, but a confirmation of a similar problem.
Thanks,
Greg
This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software.
To unsubscribe send
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite
<http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite>http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite
Rock Solid Software (tm)
\\\\\//
\\|// _\\|//_ | | _\\|//_ \\|//
(@ @) (' 0-0 ') (.) (.) (' @-@ ') (o-o)
+-=oOOo-(_)-oOOo=oo0=(_)=0oo=oOO=-(_)-=OOo=oo0=(_)=0oo=oOOo-(_)-oOOo=-+
| Level Seven inc. http://www.L7.net/
| /"\
The worlds "one stop" InterNetworking Provider
360.753.3556 \ /
+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
X
ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail >- - - - - - - - - - - - -
-> / \
This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software.
To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite
http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite
Rock Solid Software (tm)
This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software.
To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite
http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite
Rock Solid Software (tm)
