RE: [IMail Forum] Log File Examiner

[Tom]

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Never had the chance to look at it, however, there is a way to tell your program to give up time slice to windows or any other operating system for that matter.  In any case sorry for your loss and best of luck with the new app.   Regards, Tom Image`fx   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Anderson Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Log File Examiner I recently wrote a log file program that examined your log file and gave you some very useful information. I was writing the program in Visual Basic.net and I was happy with the direction it was headed, until some testers tried it on large files. My typical files are around 3 meg and it worked fine on them. However, the program used all of the CPU on the larger files. I have spent the last month trying to solve this issue, but have not found a solution.   So, I have tried a different method. Instead of a windows based program, I have gone with a console based program. The first attempt at this worked very nicely. It read a 16meg file in and processed invalid e-mails to another text file in less then 30 seconds.   My plan is to have it run the first time on the log file and then create several files, one for invalid e-mails, one for viruses, etc.   That will be the first part. The second part would be a program that would examine the files created by this program and then allow you some options that my other program created. I also would have command line parameters that would maybe create CSV files that could easily be imported into Excel or Access. I may even be able to have the file write directly to an Access database.   Thanks to all that helped me test and kill my other program. Unfortunately I had a hard drive crash and lost all of the e-mail addresses of the beta testers. My power supply died on my computer and all of the hard drives in it (6) heated up. Two drives were destroyed. I needed an excuse to buy a new computer anyways.   I will post a message when the first beta of the new program is available.   Larry Anderson