> These machines were the Intel ISP series, the use the Inteal 82559 Fast
> Ethernet Lan on Motherboard

Swap it.

> How do you defrag a highly active mail server with 1000s of users?

"Highly  active,"  again, requires metrics so that we can compare with
successful configurations.

The  more  active,  the  more  urgent  the need to defrag. If it takes
downtime  for  scheduled  maintenance,  do  it  anyway--hey, would you
rather  be  rebooting,  and  getting  no  help from the list until you
defrag?  There's  no  reason to leave out the essential step on easily
fragged filesystems. Remember, it'll take less time to defrag the more
often you do it.

> I  did  create  a  new  empty  spool  directory on a newly formatted
> partition on a separate drive.

...and now for the mailbox drive.

> I take it from the "here we go again" comment that this is a typical
> problem for users upgraded. Maybe the product just sucks?

It  would  appear  from  reports that 7.x is less tolerant of bad NICs
than  6.x.  It  also  does  have  more overhead in general, so is more
sensitive  to  fragmentation, storage load balancing, et al. You would
need to already have problems for 7.x to point up these areas.

-Sandy


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