Bob, I can only reassure you that it's very doubtful to be a Win2k problem, we run almost exactly the same set up as your selves except that our server is a humble 1Ghz with only 128MB RAM but with 350 domains and ~3000 users. CPU usage is very low ~2-5% peaking at 50% very occasionally.
If the log file is filling with "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal IMail List Server Command" it might be a problem with the list server, or someone is repeating send the same illegal command a kind of DOS attack - possibly. David -----Original Message----- From: bbloise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 August 2002 18:40 To: Declude List Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] win 2K server Greetings everyone, I HAD a Windows NT 4.0 machine running Imail version 6.xx (latest patches, etc) with Declude anti-spam and anti-virus with sniffer from sortmonster. Everything ran fine until last friday morning when BOTH mirrored drives crashed. When I went to the shop both drives were "clank, clank, clank...." I build a new machine with Windows 2000 advanced server and installed Imail and all the latest patches. I have installed declude and sniffer. I am using F-prot for the virus scan through the declude program. On the NT 4.0 machine running an AMD 750 processor the cpu usage on the task manager showed between 2 - 5% with peaks around 40%. On the new 2000 machine running a 1.8 Ghz intel 4 it will also run about the same cpu usage. Then it starts showing usage averaging about 45% with peaks to about 90%. The performance monitor shows the "File control bytes/sec" is showing about 250,000 per second. Normally this is 400 -500 with peaks to 4000-5000. This is driving me nuts as I can't seem to find what is causing the problem. The "sys0803.txt" shows ALL the same entry - "08:03 12:55 1884 LST imailsrv->[EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal IMail List Server Command!" The ENTIRE log file contains the above entries showing the only differences to be the date and time. NO OTHER NORMAL ENTRIES are in there! The daily logs are over 25 meg with nothing but that entry. I have turned OFF the logging and the problem still exists. If I reboot the computer the cpu usage goes back to the normal 5% usage. Then all of a sudden it jumps to 35 - 50% usage. There is no pattern to the amount of time before it happens. Last night it took almost an hour before it happened. I have approximately 100 domains running on the computer with about 4760 users. Keep in mind that the windows NT 4.0 running the same domains and users did NOT do this. It started with the Windows advanced 2000 server. The declude anti-spam and anti-virus program is STILL catching about 25,000 pieces of spam per day as it did on the NT 4.0 machine. I even have the declude set to DELETE the spam and virus instead of holding it to save disk writes. Any assistance with this problem will be greatly appreciated. bob bloise system administrator trellis technologies, inc. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
