The crazy thing is.... I was running just as many users on a slower Prolinea 3000. Dual PII333, 512MB, on a RAID 5 system. The only difference is the hardware and the OS being NT40 SP5. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Big Problems with Windows 2000 and Imail 6.06 > I am running Windows 2000 SP1, SQL 7.0 and Imail 6.06. The server is a > Compaq 380ML Dual 733 MHZ, RAID5, and 512MB ram. I have ~ 10,000 users on > the machine and during peak usage the POP3 fails to respond. I reset the > service and then it will work for awhile. The WEB server also will go down > intermittently. Getting too many complaints, please help. Kevin, SQL7 doesn't play nice with friends like IMail, and will try to take all the RAM its given. So, it really should be run on its own box, with at least 512MB of memory (1GB is better). RAID5 will also slow down a mailserver, due to heavy and small disk access jobs. Better to do RAID 0/1. With Win2K, make sure you set the services to restart after 1 failed attempt... sometimes that works. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMail Add-Ons by Humankind Systems ~ 1,267 admins can't be wrong http://killerwebmail.com - the name says it all http://hksi.net/products - Templates, EZSignUp, You'veGotIMail!, etc... http://hksi.net/testimonials - hear what they're saying Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
