I tried putting a spool folder on a second drive/controller and it never really worked. I was still getting files and logs writing to the old spool folder. It never seemed to completely move over to the second drive and constantly had problems. I ended up just switching it back to the default.
Is there more to it than simply changing the location of the spool folder in Imail Admin? -Frazer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 100% CPU usage problem >The service doesn't die, it just uses 100% CPU in my case. I Called >Ipswitch which didn't help, they basically blamed it on the Classic >Templates. Going to do a defrag tonight good >double the memory good, but note before and after swappping params. but what service in Imail swappable? none I reckon. they must all be locked into RAM and never swapped. >and clean up >user mailboxes that are over 100MB's in size. yep, imagine iwebmsg (or imap) process needing to repeatedly scan the mbx file to pick up all the headers and chop them into 25 or 50 per html page, then the user deletes some msgs, and the whole re-read of the 100 mb file starts over again. For just one iwebmsg user with a 100 mb file, he can pretty much put the disk drive on its knees. I don't know how iwebmsg handles in memory the msg headers of a 00 mb .mbx, but I'm bet they aren't kept memory, so the disk , for just one user, will be extremely busy. This is a situation where 160 mbyte/sec SCSI disks with 128 megs of on-board controller cache really helps. And having the imail spool directory on a separate controller+drive from the mailbox controllers+drives. and if you have to swap (argh!!), have the swap on a separate controller+drive, or at least in it own dedicated partition. Nothing worse than a fragmented swap space. and of course you don't want ANY swapping going on in a dedicated mailbox server. >Hopefully this will fix the problem. wouldn�t that be nice. Let us know. 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 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/
