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Nah, the .cfg file is default and srvany.exe was installed
with the resource kit.
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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