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Article #22Re: Mercury performance slow on NW 5 Server
From: Juergen Rosemeyer
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:00
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Brian Hampson wrote: > > Ian Dobson (ian@fastnet.bc.ca) wrote: > > : I'm running Mercury 1.43 and I don't see any problems, maybe its only with > : 1.44? > > : > > I have a NW 5 server with SP3 installed running on a 400 MHz Pentium II > : > > with 256 Megs of RAM and mirrored 18 gig hard drives. > : > > > : > > Mercury is taking a very long time to transfer mail. When trying to > : > > send mail via POP the SMTP connection is never less than 5 seconds, and > : > > it's usually more like 7-10. On the Netware 3.12 server that this new > : > > server replaced, SMTP connections for small messages didn't even last > : > > one second. > : > > : > I do have exactly the same problems. I did post the same question and did > : > not get any answer. Now I am looking for another mail system running on > : > Netware. > > I am running 1.44, and have had no problems...when you say "Sending mail > via POP", do you mean setting mercury as your SMTP gateway on the client? > We don't do that, so that might be the difference. yes, using Mercury as an SMTP server is very slow. In the kernel menu of the Monitor console I can see, that Mercn__P and MercuryP are often the busiest threads and for the same time the utilization of the server is very high. Changing the switch parameter seems not to change anything. I am using the NDS version with ldap_synonyms set to 1. Can that be the reason? Juergen -- Juergen Rosemeyer Fachhochschule Hannover Computer Center Ricklinger Stadtweg 120 30459 Hannover Germany e-mail: juergen.rosemeyer@rz.fh-hannover.de
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