Have you looked at the logs for the time when it is using 100% cpu to see what it's 
doing at that time?  Any chance you have some users with extremely large mailboxes?  
Did you apply 8.01 HF1?

Tripp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Lupo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail 8.01 Problems - Queue Manager


> After installing IMail version 8.0 in June, we noticed the Queue
> Manager, over a period of 3-4 days, beginning to consume more and more
> CPU time until it completely hogged 100% of the CPU. Outside SMTP
> connections were being refused, POP and Web Messaging users could not
> send/receive messages, etc. After working with Ipswitch technical
> support over a period of several days, we were told that other users
> were having similar problems, and that a fix would be out in July. In
> the meantime, we downgraded to 7.15, and things went back to normal.
> 
> In mid-July, we downloaded version 8.01, and, at first, it appeared it
> was working better. Queue Manager was still hogging 100% of the CPU
> time, but in short bursts of no more than 5 seconds. However, over a 2
> week period, Queue Manager slowly increased its demand on the CPU, and
> eventaully started hogging the CPU 100% of the time. Restarting the
> Queue Manager and SMTP services did nothing to alleviate the demand.
> Also, creating a new, empty spool directory did not fix the problem. The
> queue (spooler) typically has less than 30 messages in it at any given
> time. We ended up reverting back to 7.15, but now it is consuming 100%
> of the CPU for long periods of time.
> 
> The symptoms remind me of the first US Robotics 56K modem 'sprial of
> death' problem where the modem would slowly decrease its data rate until
> it stopped passing data altogether.
> 
> Is any one else having the same or similar problems with 8.01? We are
> extremely disappointed in this product.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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