[ExchangeList] Re: Exchange server delivery latency: need help!
- From: "Tony Afriyie" <tony.afriyie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:43:23 -0400
Jabber,
Are you familiar with Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool? You
may wanna download it from Microsoft website and run it on the Exchange
Server to find out what could be possible causing this latency on your
server.
Here is the link to download the tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=DBAB201F-4BEE-4943-
AC22-E2DDBD258DF3
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=DBAB201F-4BEE-4943
-AC22-E2DDBD258DF3&displaylang=en> &displaylang=en
From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jabber Wock
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:16 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [ExchangeList] Exchange server delivery latency: need help!
Hi,
I have an Exchange 2003 server which has started experiencing significant
latency (lag) in message delivery in the past 2-4 weeks. Some users (not
all) are reporting that messages are taking many minutes, sometimes 20
minutes to an hour to arrive. This is true for internal email (sender and
recipient both on this Exchanges erver) or external email (emails from
outside being delivered to Exchange user, or Exchange user sending to an
external user).
I have defragged the store, and also tried moving mailboxes to another
store. I have checked event logs for any clues but don't see anything that
would imply an issue. The queue is typically very small, 50 to 100
messages, all small in size and mostly to non-deliverable external addresses
which does not sound like it should be holding up everyone else. The server
typically processes 10000 to 20000 emails per day so a queue of 90 should
probably be OK. RAM usage is less than 50% of physical memory (4GB real,
about 1.7GB typically used, store.exe is using maybe 800MB to 1.2GB). No
disk errors or issues in the event log. The server CPU is a Xeon 3GHz and
CPU utiliztion is always quite low, around 10-15%.
This behavior is relatively recent, perhaps in the last 2-4 weeks. Server
traffic has not changed noticeably during that period, i.e. SMTP log files
are about the same size they have always been, bandwidth usage is about the
same over the past 6 months etc. Also, not all users are reporting the
issue, but there is no obvious pattern to them ( e.g. all on one store, or
one OU in the AD etc.).
I did notice that when I was moving mailboxes from one store to another, it
was slow as molasses. It took 3 hours to move 10 mailboxes, none of which
were "huge" (maybe 50MB to 300MB in size). That seems odd, I would have
expected the mailbox move (in ESM) to whizz by at amazing speeds especially
on a Sunday morning.
Any suggestions as to what I should look at to analyze where the latency in
delivery is? Are there any tools (apart from "Windows Performance Monitor"
which I ran but did not show any obvious issues)? Are there any tuning
suggestions for Exchange message delivery?
Any help would be appreciated! (other than "google is your friend" or "go
buy some books" thanks LOL).
best regards
J. W.
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