Re[10]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-04-02 Thread Pete McNeil
On Saturday, April 2, 2005, 1:07:56 PM, Andrew wrote: CA> Pete, your metaphors are wonderful. :-) CA> If I remember correctly, the "MaxPollTime" was originally much lower. I CA> now use the full 4 seconds, but I don't know how often that's needed. I CA> easily see Declude processes taking lo

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

2005-04-02 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
logging to cut down on disk time. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:12 PM To: Colbeck, Andrew Subject: Re[8]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer On Friday, April 1, 2005, 6:44:13 PM, Andrew wrote:

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

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
ar so good. Thanks again for taking the time to help out. Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pete McNeil Sent: Fri 4/1/2005 10:18 PM To: Keith Johnson Cc: Subject: Re[8]: [sniffer] Persiste

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
To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Cc: Subject: RE: Re[6]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer 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 t

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

2005-04-01 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
then the other sniffer clients get impatient and process the files themselves, causing more cpu pressure. Andrew 8) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:03 PM To: Keith Johnson Subject: Re[6]: [sniffer] Pers

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
Thanks again, Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:16 PM To: Keith Johnson Subject: Re[4]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer On Friday, April 1, 2005, 11:44:07 AM, Keith wrote: KJ> Pete, KJ>

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

2005-04-01 Thread Keith Johnson
: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer 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 KJ> drives)

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
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 11:17 AM To: Keith Johnson Subject: Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer On Friday, April 1, 2005, 8:04:27 AM, Keith wrote: KJ> I have read forum results that this behavior is the reverse of wha

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

Re[2]: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-03-31 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 10:50:36 PM, Keith wrote: KJ> Pete, KJ>Thanks for the follow-up. I was monitoring the KJ> filename.persistent.stat file that yields stats as messages are KJ> processed. Is it normal for it to every now and then flash [File KJ> is Empty], thus no stats at all

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-03-30 Thread Keith Johnson
, Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pete McNeil Sent: Wed 3/30/2005 4:28 PM To: Keith Johnson Cc: Subject: Re: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 4:08:35 PM

Re: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-03-30 Thread Pete McNeil
On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 4:08:35 PM, Keith wrote: KJ> I noticed in the archives about a .cfg file one can configure for use KJ> when running Persistent sniffer. How do you download it or obtain it? KJ> Thanks for the aid. You can find a sample .cfg file in the latest distribution. If you d

RE: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-03-30 Thread Keith Johnson
Sorry for the post, helpful if I look in the sniffer directory first :) Keith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:09 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Persistent Sniffer I

[sniffer] Persistent Sniffer

2005-03-30 Thread Keith Johnson
I noticed in the archives about a .cfg file one can configure for use when running Persistent sniffer. How do you download it or obtain it? Thanks for the aid. Keith This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sort