RE: Re[8]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Yes the file is changing every few seconds or sooner. Sorry, I just did a 'grab' of it and posted. The 307 is due to me stopping it after 30 min or so and altering the few changes to the .conf file. I will continue to monitor it over the weekend. However, so far so good. Thank

Re[8]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 6:44:13 PM, Andrew wrote: CA> I also had a bad first experience with the persistent sniffer, and CA> switch to FireDaemon from SrvAny, and set the start priority for sniffer CA> to "Above Normal"; I can't prove it, but I'm convinced that without that CA> setting, Declud

Re[8]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 9:36:05 PM, Keith wrote: KJ> Pete/Matt/Andrew, KJ> Thanks for all your wonderful input. Maybe I didn't KJ> give it a fair shake or time enough as mentioned by Pete earlier. KJ> I turned it on again about 30 min ago and have seen my system KJ> stable, currently i

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete/Matt/Andrew, Thanks for all your wonderful input. Maybe I didn't give it a fair shake or time enough as mentioned by Pete earlier. I turned it on again about 30 min ago and have seen my system stable, currently it is: TicToc: 1112391330 Loop: 264 Poll: 445

RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Hey, I've got two cents that you're welcome to... Both Pete and Matt mentioned that Keith's experience was outside the bounds of the normal experience. Keith, you could make sure that your setup is valid by setting up Message Sniffer on your own workstation with srvany, and then manually running

Re[6]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:37:33 PM, Keith wrote: KJ> pegged the CPU as you stated. We have batted around running BIND KJ> for NT/2000 on the local machine, but my fear was overhead of KJ> another major process running. I don't have any good stats on how KJ> much CPU/Memory BIND on an Imail S

Re: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Matt
Keith, Windows DNS service will handle over a million lookups a day without blinking. There should be no reason to switch to a different DNS server. It hardly even registers any CPU load on my boxes. The biggest CPU hog is the virus scanners, and choosing your virus scanners carefully will h

RE: Re[4]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Wow, thank you for the explanation. I did let the persistent server run for 30 min after I restarted the services. However, I did stop the services, then started Sniffer service, then restart Imail services. I could have gotten a backlog of retries at that moment that pegged the CP

Re[4]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 11:44:07 AM, Keith wrote: KJ> Pete, KJ> Thanks for the reply. KJ> Running on an IBM Xseries 225 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB RAM - KJ> running IBM's ServerRAID 5i in IBM's RAID 10 config (4 73GB 10K drives) KJ> - O/S is Windows 2000 Standard Server SP4 KJ>

RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Pete, Thanks for the reply. Running on an IBM Xseries 225 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB RAM - running IBM's ServerRAID 5i in IBM's RAID 10 config (4 73GB 10K drives) - O/S is Windows 2000 Standard Server SP4 Running Imail 8.15HF1 with Declude JM/Virus 1.82 - BIND DNS Server is

Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, April 1, 2005, 8:04:27 AM, Keith wrote: KJ> I have read forum results that this behavior is the reverse of KJ> what should happen, I should get a reduction in CPU. I did this KJ> around 11pm last night, usually during peak times this server KJ> would stay at 65% load. Is there anythin

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
I have been installing the persistent sniffer module on each of our servers. The 1st server I placed it on I saw very little decrease in CPU, however, it is only taking in about 30K messages and sending out about 3K. However, last night I was installing it on one of our busiest servers (140K i