Nserver.exe pegged at 100% CPU

[kribo]

Hi all,

Help!
I have an ND6.5.4 on a Win2000 and the nserver.exe seemed to be tying up the mail server. I have one user who seems to be getting tons of emails, at the moment around 3Gb. Is there away to get rid of this? An agent has been created, user and data has been deleted. Contact ISP about the origin of the spam domain? Thanks.

 

[MarkhP]

You can set a rule at the server (rather than an agent) to discard the unwanted mails when the server sees them come in. Have a look at the users account to see if there is an agent that is replying to mails. We had it once where an agent was replying to mails which were from an address that was rejecting all mails. The rejections came back in, and the agent would reply to them...and so on!.

 

[kribo]

Thanks MarkHP.

I did confront the user and there was an agent that's running that's trying to forward the email. However, we didn't allow the email to pass through and the inbox exceeded 5Gb. I did disable the agent that stops the problem.

I do however still have problem with the nserver.exe and nupdate.exe pegging the CPU at 100%. Is there something I can do to reduce the processing, a fix or just leave as is?

Thanks.

 

[MarkhP]

The Nupdate 100% issue could be down to a faulty index. Do you have full text indexed databases?. If there are any big ones, you may want to turn of FT indexing for them and see if that helps?