I am wondering whether a missed user/pw is causing the dll to hang. Has
anyone considered creating a script to generate the file needed to run the
command line mail config from. This would be similar to running a unix
radius in that you would need to periodically generate the file and update
the registry, but performance should be greatly enhanced.
Duane.
At 01:50 PM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>We found that by establishing a trusted connection from NTMail to SQL at
>boot time, by using Explorer to map a network drive, and telling it to
>reconnect at reboot. The NT box statrs with an AutoAdminLogin with a
>username and password identical to that of an authorized user of SQL and
>the Emerald system. Thus, the CONNECTION is already established, and NO
>authentication needs to take place for a RADIUS request from that machine
>-- the machine is "trusted". This greatly reduces overhead and increases
>performance greatly.
>
>At 12:12 PM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>We had the same problem, we found that replicating the emerald database on a
>>separate server just for NTMail to use helped 150%.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Duane Schaub <dschaub@terraworld.net>
>>To: emerald@emerald.iea.com <emerald@emerald.iea.com>
>>Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 12:11 PM
>>Subject: NTMail Performance
>>
>>
>>>I am getting poor performance from my NTmail/Emerald setup.
>>>
>>>NTMail is running on a machine with 128Mb ram/P200(Just a plain old 200)
>>>and IIS4 with a few domains. After running for a day or so, POP and SMTP
>>>occupy about 70-90 MB of RAM by themselves, and inetinfo user another 40Mb.
>>> It takes about 24 hours to reach these ram levels. Immediately after boot
>>>up, only about 71 Mb (including disk cache) is in use. I believe that the
>>>inetinfo size is due to IIS caching its web content.
>>>
>>>Anyway, SQL is on a different server p166/96Mb RAM. When a user checks POP
>>>mail, it takes 10-15 seconds for emer_ntm to retrieve the user info from
>>>the DB. It almost seems like it has to login to the SQL server or
>>>something like that. The SQL server only has about 10-15% CPU utilization
>>>and considerable idletime on the Harddrive. It appears to just be sitting
>>>there after the pop request has come in.
>>>
>>>Is this performance normal with NTmail? I have a number of users
>>>complaining that SOME of their incoming mail is bouncing back to the sender
>>>with invalid user errors. This is only some mail. Also, when checking pop
>>>mail sometimes users get "Invalid username/password". They can check again
>>>a few seconds later and it works. The problem is that some users
>>>immediately start playing with their system and screw it up. Then I spent
>>>the next half hour trying to fix them.
>>>
>>>Here's one for Dale.... Can you make an SQL script that will generate a
>>>file (like radius) that can bet run with the command line ntmail program to
>>>save the users to the ntmail registry. This will allow users to bypass the
>>>ntmail.dll and full utlilize the aliases, etc within emerald. If this can
>>>be done in an external program or as an SQL script, then I can schedule it
>>>to run periodically during the day. This will reduce the loading on the
>>>SQL server and reduce network traffic plus significantly enhance the
>>>reliability of the NTmail server since it won't rely on the ODBC
>>>connection... Which seems shaky at best.
>>>
>>>Duane.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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