Dan,
Just two thoughts at this moment. One would be permissions. Maybe
setting up SRVANY by installing the Resource Kit would be the way to go
(if that isn't what you did). I would imagine that if the service
starts, all should be fine. The other would be to check your Sniffer's
CFG file to make sure that nothing funky is in there.
Matt
Dan Horne wrote:
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.
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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