Scott, Oh, it is definitely smtp and declude that live at the top of the cpu usage "pile." Before we bought Declude you told me how to determine mail sent and received. As of the last few times I tried, that no longer works. And, since I never had enough resources to open log files I stopped logging until I can get cpu usage under control or upgrade or change to a new server.
~Katie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spool & Queue questions >Until recently, I've not paid much attention to the contents of either >my Spool or the Queue. I've observed recently that while the spool >might have 2400 files, when I view the Queue from Imail Administrator, >I might only see 160 files. Does that sound right? Yes, because: >Also, there seem to be a disproportionate d*.txt and t*.txt files. There are lots of possible files in the spool -- the real spool files (such as D*.SMD and Q*.SMD, but other first characters and extensions are possible), as well as log files and misc. files (such as partial old IMail version web messaging uploads). In this case, it sounds like a lot of orphaned files are present (any D*.SMD file with no matching Q*.SMD file). Those are E-mails that could neither be delivered nor bounced ("double bounces"). The T*.SMD files that have no matching Q*.SMD (or _*.SMD) files shouldn't occur -- but they can occur under certain circumstances (for example, if the SMTP service crashed or the power was disconnected from the server while an E-mail was being received). >I thought that I understood that d*.txt files were deleted when the >message was delivered Correct. But they are not deleted if they cannot be delivered or bounced ("so that no E-mail will ever be lost"). >Lastly, despite that fact that I somewhat regularly >run isplcln to delete msgs older than 3 days old, I hade some files >from July in the spool. isplcln is/was either the buggiest program ever made, or has horrible documentation. There are tons of reports of people who run it who lose files that they did not want deleted, and other similar problems. >The inspiration for this recent interest is cpu usage. About 2 months >ago there was a dramatic rise in our cpu usage. It now stays at 100% >for long periods. It is very easy to narrow this down further: Just run Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, and then click the "CPU" button. This will sort all the processes in order of the % of CPU time that they are using. The one(s) closest to the top are the ones using the most CPU time. If there are SMTP32.exe, Declude.exe, and/or AV processes constantly sitting there among the top entries (without one clearly using more CPU time than the others), you may be near the capacity of your server (if so, see how many E-mails you are sending/receiving per day). -Scott --- Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the leader in mailserver vulnerability detection. Find out what you've been missing: Ask about our free 30-day evaluation. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] 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/ 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/
