Re: Message lag - Emails lag while in Categorizer.

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From: Chris Scharff [MVP] (puevf_fpuness_at_znvy-erfbheprf.pbz)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:01:04 -0500

In the last exciting episode, "SPIN" <SPIN@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
> I am a Student doing a work term for the next 8 weeks and I have been
>assigned the very unfair task of solving a issue that is very werid. We are
>running a Exchange 2k server system and are having delays in the categorizer.
>The delays last anywere for 5 to 10mins. This is not happening all the time
>However, it just seems to build up over time. A reboot of the server does
>fix the lag but it will build up again and the cycle starts all over, we are
>running cicular logging but a backup of logs is completed everynight,

You're using circular logging? Ugh... no need to backup the logs
really is there?

> and we
>have no idea how to correct this issue, granted a reboot of the server every
>few weeks is not the earth shaking but is none the less, something we would
>prefer not to do.

Categorizer delays are unlikely related to backups... just trying to
help you narrow the scope of the question there... Do you have perfmon
running to monitor the Exchange server and GC? If so, what counters
are you monitoring?

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