It would not slow the email engine, however, the logic in the arsystem could be 
impacted.

We only save 30 days back and saw a little performance bounce.

Enjoy the weekend

Howard 

Sent from my iPhone 4

On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Teresa Fannin <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> I was wondering if keeping every email that has ever been sent on a system 
> that is 4 years old with thousands of emails every day would decrease email  
> performance?
> Teresa
> In a message dated 9/7/2012 07:22:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> [email protected] writes:
> I have seen this on many versions. Enable email logging and look for a couple 
> of items.
> 1. Does the mail box your picking up from have a large number of emails to be 
> picked up?
> 2. Is the engine hanging on a type of email, maybe with large attachments?
> 3. How much memory do you have on the server, how much is allocated for the 
> java process that the engine is using?
> 4. Before you kill the engine, are you looking at the memory that it's using?
> 
> 
> In the past I have seen three main reasons for the hanging of the engine:
> 
> Memory,  bad email message (that could not be processed, like an encrypted 
> message), to many messages to be picked up (if you are using inbound emails)..
> 
> 
> Remember logging will help.
> 
> Good luck and take care of you kidneys,
> 
> Howard
> 
> Sent from one of Howard's iPads
> 
> On Sep 7, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Randeep Atwal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Running a query (monitoring    tools usually have a db row count monitor) 
> > of the oldest unsent message greater than x minutes ago is a way to 
> > understand if it's hung and automate a restart.
> > 
> > Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:         "Boyd, Rebecca"    <[email protected]>
> > Sender:       "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" 
> > <[email protected]>
> > Date:         Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:48:37 
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To:     [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Email Engine Hanging
> > 
> > We run a PowerShell script which looks for "error" in the stderr.out log.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Karthik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> **
> >> 
> >> Did you check if performance of remedy was good when the email engine was
> >> hung? Sometimes when the performance is not stable it tends to hang. Also,
> >> are there any errors in the stderr.out log file?
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Karthik
> >> 
> >> On Sep 7, 2012 11:16 PM, "Leonard Johnson" <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> hey all,
> >>> 
> >>> Every now and then our email engine hangs (hasnt everyone's?).  Starting
> >>> and stopping this will get emails going again but I am wondering if anyone
> >>> has used ProactiveNet or other monitoring to catch this when it happens.
> >>> Since the email Engine service is still showing as running, I can't really
> >>> use that for monitoring.  Any idea of what log or method I can use to
> >>> proactively catch this prior to customers calling to say they arent 
> >>> getting
> >>> their notifications?
> >>> 
> >>> I haven't dug very deep on this yet but this is always the place I find
> >>> the right answers and putting it out to you all first.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for any input.
> >>> 
> >>> LJ
> >>> 
> >>> 
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> > 
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> > Application Administrator
> > Wake Forest University
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