Our Imail server locked up on Tues. night...
Are you using the F-Prot.exe file, or fpcmd.exe with Declude Virus?We're running W2k, SP3, Imail 7.13, Declude, F-Prot on Dell 2650 1G RAM.
There seem to be a small percentage of servers that have extremely serious problems running 16-bit programs, for no apparent reason (which can cause performance issues such as very slow response to TCP/IP connections). If you are using F-Prot.exe (which is a 16-bit program), I would recommend switching to fpcmd.exe (which is 32-bits). The one catch in changing between the two programs is that you need to remove the "/NOFLOPPY" switch (which is required for the 16-bit version, but which the 32-bit version does not understand). If you need help with the change, you can E-mail me off the list.
That shouldn't be an issue -- Microsoft has it set up so that you can actually have thousands of "half open" processes without causing the server to crash (if it happens, you'll see lots of pop-up boxes).We find nothing remarkable in event log, nothing remarkable in Imail logs. I've cut Imail processes from 35 to 20 (thinking maybe "mystery heap" problem).
Hmmm. 2000 files is a lot of files, but shouldn't be enough to cause Explorer to choke.The only oddity is that the explorer process tends to lock up when trying to access Imail spool folder. I can go anywhere else in file system but 1 out of 2 times it locks up when I try to go in there. Checked from command line and it's got about 2000 files.
I would recommend opening some of the D*.SMD files in that directory manually, to make sure that they are legitimate E-mails. With 2,000 files in there, they most likely are legitimate, but it's worth checking.
-Scott
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