>Can someone help me?
Just imagine how fragmented you mailbox partition will be with that many
file creations and deletions. It would not be surprising that you may be
suffering from filesystem problems, not application pb's.
( Remember when NT came out in late 96 and MS's FUD (euphemism for "lies")
was that NTFS was so wonderful that it didn't need de-fragmenting? So
that's why NT, an infrastructure OS, didn't come with a basic defragmenter
tool. )
I suggest that you run an NT disk defragmenter continuously in the
background at low priority on the partition where your mailboxes are.
Norton has an NT version of their vetern SpeedDisk, and Executive Software
has DiskKeeper. Some think DiskKeeper is better for NT, Norton better for
Win9x. You can DL these for evaluation. www.symantec.com www.execsoft.com
Remember, the first several passes of defragmentation can be excrutiatingly
slow and long on a badly fragmented partition (10's of 1000's of file
fragments and free space fragments), but later defragmenations will be
faster. It will be quicker to backup the parition, reformat the partition,
and restore, but still run the defragmenter continuously as prevention.
Your partitioning strategy is key: With a one disk system, I do
c: system progs (intall absolutely nothing in here, if avoidable)
d: swap (3 times the size of physical memory)
e: all non-system programs
f: data ( being your mailboxes, so this is your defragmenting horror and
target )
At which point, good old NT can't count above 4 partitions per physical
drive. This is "innovation".
If the IMAP performance is still slow, then you'll have to take a look at
parameters at the application level.
Len
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