Dramatically reduce the starting time of the SmarterMail.

Idea shared by Flávio Eduardo Cardoso - 8/19/2016 at 10:52 AM

Proposed

When SmarterMail starts it needs to read the following files for each domain:
domainconfig.xml
companyinfo.xml
mailinglist.db
domain.cfg
accountlist.xml
filestore.xml
userConfig.xml

But these files are in the domains folder.
My suggestion is simple: Allow these files can be placed in another path, so that we can use SSDs for these files and start the SmarterMail in less than 2 minutes even when it has thousands of domains. Today our SmarterMail take more than 15 minutes to start with 10K SAS drives and 3000 domains.

The architecture that I recommend would be like this:

SSDs for: OS, Index, Spool and the new folder for config files listed above.
SAS 10K disks for: other files.

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Paul Blank Replied

8/22/2016 at 10:03 AM

Really good idea, Flavio. Would be nice (and probably not very difficult) to change SM to "break out" these settings.

Derek Curtis Replied

9/9/2016 at 2:33 PM

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Flavio

That would be a fairly decent architecture change. If SmarterMail is taking that long to start up, then there's something else going on. It may be worthwhile to start a ticket with our support team so they can get on the the box and take a look.

Derek Curtis COO SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

Webio Replied

9/12/2016 at 3:08 AM

IMHO you can reopen ticket:

3C1-1EDEF04B-0B08

During ticket resolving there was one time when SM started quite fast but recently it is starting lets say about 5-10-15 minutes (probably it depends on what hour it is being restarted).

Issue has been also discussed here:

http://portal.smartertools.com/community/a87717/mailinglist_db-loading-during-smartermail-startup-making-startup-process-quite-long.aspx

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