Be careful about this though... simply creating a larger swap file does not
guarantee these results... If the system drive (or wherever you have your
swap file) has already been fragmented, it is highly likely that the swap
file will be fragmented in spite of these recommendations. Be sure to couple
this with good use of a defragmentation program to get the best results.
_M
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Shadix
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 6:05 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] [Imail Forum] webservice crashes can't
| upgrade
|
|
| A small swap file causes speed degradation because when NT/Win2K has to
| expand it you get a fragmented swap file along with the overhead of the
| creation process. If you create a large swap file it doesn't get
| fragmented
| and the OS doesn't have to spend time expanding it after every
| reboot. I'd
| say that 3x RAM will usually prevent these problems but that if
| you're swap
| file in use is equal to the amount of physical RAM, then you need
| more RAM.
|
| Dan
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:31 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
|
|
| Len,
|
| Recommendations were not for IMail as much as they were for the OS! Just
| repeating what I have heard here several times before.
|
| I do recall that several here in the forum reported problems with Web MSG
| going away after they did increase the swap file to 3X RAM.
|
| Daniel Donnelly
| ________________________________________________________
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:14 PM
| Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
|
|
| > Daniel
| >
| > Can you explain this swap file business? A mail server shouldn�t be
| > swapping at all or extremely little.
| >
| > What has ipswitch found in increasing the hardly used swap file to 3X
| > memory size makes Imail work better?
| >
| > Len
| >
| > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training
| > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K
| > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse
| mail gateways
| >
| >
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