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"Average Delivery Time" shows some astronomic... - 16.Apr.2004 4:02:00 PM

MegaTrain

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Windows Server 2003 with Exchange 2003

Using Performance Monitor, I am looking at the "Average Delivery Time" counter from the "MSExchangeIS Mailbox" object.

Currently, the value for this is 2.3 million milliseconds (2300 seconds, or 38 minutes). According to my logs, however, this has been as high as 110 million (110000 seconds, or 30 hours).

Is there something seriously wrong with my system, or is this performance counter simply not accurate?

The performance monitor describes this counter as follows:
"Average Delivery Time is the average time in miliseconds between the submission of a message to the mailbox store and the delivery to all local recipients (recipients on the same server) for the last 10 messages"

So if the last 10 messages have no recipients on the local server, will this number be 0/0 = undefined??

Any suggestions would be appreciated, as well as other performance counters that might help me truly determine the performance of my server.

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RE: "Average Delivery Time" shows some astron... - 16.Apr.2004 4:57:00 PM

randomelements

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I would suggest that the counter is wildly inaccurate. I just tested this on my server with a few messages. These are appearing straight away in the mailbox but the counter is reading an average of 917000 (15mins +).

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RE: "Average Delivery Time" shows some astron... - 16.Apr.2004 5:09:00 PM

randomelements

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a high value is supposed to indicate a problem with the MTA so you might like to use mtacheck and see if it improves at all. The counter is not supposed to remain at non-zero, however.

I must admit that I ran mtacheck not too long ago and there were no problems.

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