Our Information Store reached it's limit a couple of times. It doesn't crash the server, the store just shuts down. When it does, you'll probably get an irate user wondering why they can't get to their mail. Then, you just have to do an offline defrag to free up enough space. (We tried to get Admin to upgrade and gave them a price, which really wasn't that high, but they said just have people reduce their stored email. However, to their credit they were the first ones to reduce the size of their mailboxes by exporting to psts.) We have DL380 and we, too, had the server reboot itself. We discovered that one of the memory chips was bad.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Niles Ferrier Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 7:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Troubleshooting a crashing exchange 5.5 server Our Private Information Store is 14GB (with 1.2GB of free space inside which is slowly being used up) and our public folders are only 500MB or less. I read that each store has a size limit of 16GB independent of each other (eg. if the private store is 14gb and the public store is 2gb thats ok since neither individual file is 16gb) but if I am wrong please let me know before that blows up in my face!! Upon closer inspection of the machines behaviour, I dont think it is blue screening at all, since the compaq hardware log thing would normally show up a BSOD event, but for all the times it has reset, there is no such entry. The OS halts and the Automated System Recovery utility reboots because it notices its timer has stopped, and assumes a problem has occured. I am keeping my eye on it, and looking for replacement RAM from some of our other servers to see if its not a RAM related issue either. Cheers! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.UnSub') Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
