> > These machines were the Intel ISP series, the use the Inteal 82559 Fast > > Ethernet Lan on Motherboard > > Swap it.
Swap the motherboard? In that case, what are the recommended. > > 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. ~ 15,000 messages a day - my 6.0 log files were routinely 60-80MB daily. > 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. Ok, will do. > > I did create a new empty spool directory on a newly formatted > > partition on a separate drive. > > ...and now for the mailbox drive. I don't understand. Could you be more specific, please? > > 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. Ok, I guess this is exactly opposite of what I was hoping the upgrade to do :( To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
