No, I followed your instructions exactly (and not for the
first time). I didn't add those extra values until today. Prior to
adding the AppDirectory value, the service was taking a minute to scan emails;
after adding it the scan time went to around 2 seconds. I can't get it any
lower than that. Initially mine was set up exactly as you said, with only
"Application" containing the path, authcode and persistent. Today after
hearing no suggestions from the list, and based on recent list messages
mentioning the home directory for the service, I looked at the srvany.exe doco
to find out how to give it a home directory. That's when I added
AppDirectory. I also saw and added AppParameters at the same time and
added those as well, though they seem not to be needed.
Prior to adding the AppDirectory value, I never got any
.stat file or any .SVR file in my sniffer dir. After adding that value and
starting the service those files appeared.
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:24
PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: Re: [sniffer]
Sniffer taking a long time?
Dan,
There is no AppDirectory value on my server
either. The Parameters key has only one value under it besides Default
which is "Application", and it contains exactly what I provided below.
Could it be that you tried to hard to get everything right by tweaking these
additional keys?
Something else. Did you make sure that the
Sniffer service that you created was started? No doubt it will work if
you follow those directions to a T, and there aren't any issues with your
server apart from this.
Matt
Dan Horne wrote:
I removed the AppParameters value and put the authcode
and persistent back in the Application value where it was before. It
didn't make any difference at all in the processing time, still right around
2 seconds. I don't know how your setup is working without at least the
AppDirectory value, because mine didn't start working until I put that in,
but if it is, I can't argue. My server load isn't anywhere near yours,
so I don't see what the problem could be with mine. Oh well, unless
Pete responds with a suggestion, I guess I'll just keep using the
non-service version.
Thanks anyway.
Dan,
I seem to recall trying to use the
AppParameters key and having difficulty with it. I think that you
might want to try removing that key and putting everything in the
Parameters key, or at least that works for me. If you change
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Sniffer\Parameters in
RegEdit to the following it might fix the issue that you are having:
C:\IMail\Declude\Sniffer\***RULEBASE-NAME***.exe
***AUTH-CODE***
persistent
You should of course adjust the path
and service name as well.
The directions that I provided are
working perfectly on my server so far as I can tell. I'm running
dual 3.2 Ghz 1 MB cache Xeons with 5 x 15,000 RPM drives in RAID 5.
The following three debug log entries shows between 300 ms and 550 ms per
message:
08/02/2005 14:19:47.113 QB93D976201222A43 [2616]
SNIFFER-IP: External program started:
C:\IMail\Declude\Sniffer\executable.exe
auth-code
F:\\DB93D976201222A43.SMD 08/02/2005 14:19:47.676
QB93D976201222A43 [2616] SNIFFER-IP: External program reports exit code
of 61 ----------------- 08/02/2005
14:19:47.488 QB9418A4800EC2A49 [6196] SNIFFER-IP: External program
started:
C:\IMail\Declude\Sniffer\executable.exe
auth-code
F:\\DB9418A4800EC2A49.SMD 08/02/2005 14:19:47.770
QB9418A4800EC2A49 [6196] SNIFFER-IP: External program reports exit code
of 51 ----------------- 08/02/2005
14:19:49.879 QB943711501382A4D [6388] SNIFFER-IP: External program
started:
C:\IMail\Declude\Sniffer\executable.exe
auth-code
F:\\DB943711501382A4D.SMD 08/02/2005 14:19:50.176
QB943711501382A4D [6388] SNIFFER-IP: External program reports exit code
of 59
My stat file shows the following:
TicToc: 1122992104 Loop: 154 Poll: 0 Jobs:
118392 Secs: 155137 Msg/Min: 45.7887 Current-Load:
24.4275 Average-Load: 23.8719
I'm not sure why people use FireDaemon for
this. My experience with SRVANY.exe has been absolutely flawless
since I integrated this, and it has worked on both Win2k and Windows
2003.
Matt
Dan Horne wrote:
OK, I have managed to get SOMETHING working, but it still seems too slow
and something is still not right. I originally set up the persistent
sniffer using the instructions from this post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg00169.html
This uses SRVANY.exe. I conjectured that possibly the service needed a
home directory, so I added an AppDirectory value to the sniffer
service's "Parameters" key in the registry. This value is set to the
directory sniffer resides in. I also (based on my reading of the
srvany.exe documentation) added another value to the same key called
AppParameters. This is set to my auth code followed by a space,
followed by the word persistent.
Now when I start the service, the time spent processing a single message
goes down to something around 2 seconds, but is still far longer than
the non-service version. I also still had no .stat file in my sniffer
directory. I did get a *.SVR file, which I never got before.
So then I'm thinking, let's just make sure that I have the latest
version of sniffer. I downloaded that, did the necessary renaming of
the files and then started the service. NOW there is a
*.persistent.stat file. However, the scan time is still at around 2
seconds.
Average Scan times (based on average scan times of 5 emails each):
Without sniffer service running: .033 seconds
With sniffer service running: 2.244 seconds
The *.persistent.stat file has the following contents:
TicToc: 1122990610
Loop: 512
Poll: 445
Jobs: 34
Secs: 303
Msg/Min: 6.73267
Current-Load: 8.69565
Average-Load: 10.6371
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dan Horne
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