Such a behavior is "normal" when you have a misconfigured full-duplex
network.
When you have A 100MBit Switch, and it one of the hosts (server or Station)
thinks it can send in full-duplex (vs. half-duplex) but the switch does only
do half duplex, then this can happen.
Because: small data goes thru, because the ACK Packet comes after the data.
But when you send a huge a amount of data over this misconfigured "link"
then the ACK signal never comes back to the sender, and he must retransmit.
So the transferrate is very,very bad.
Can you send other data (besides SMTP) to that server quick??
So please try to configure all network cards to half-duplex, reboot and try
again. If it works then, try to force the switch and the network card into
full duplex and try again.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Fiegel [mailto:jeff@mail.zefex.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 9:31 PM
> To: Philip Hazel
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Slow
>
>
> Nothing seems odd.... I goes through the normal checking of of the
> configuration settings then I see the head of the message
> and then it just
> sits while getting the "attachment"..... again forever.....
