> > 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
:(



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