This doesn't appear to be the cause based on how things appear to be looking, but if your DC's are Windows 2000, then another thing to check would be ACL's on objects. Those can cause sudden and noticeable database growth since inheritable ACL's will get copied to the child objects they apply to.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steve Schofield > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. > > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is a problem but something seems not > exactly right with the size of my AD database. AD has about > 10,000 user id's and a few servers. The size of the AD > database over the last few days has grown from 900 meg to 1.4 > gig. We haven't added any a lot more objects to cause this > type of growth. > > We do have a script that runs every 5 minutes that adds, > updates, removes users that are used by a program that does > LDAP look-ups. This is about the only thing because it runs > so often I can contribute to it but not sure. > There are no errors in the event log but the growth of 500 > meg in a few days > concerns me. I looked around and didn't find much pertaining to this > subject. Any thoughts, suggestions on determining whitespace > in the AD database? > > Steve Schofield > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
