I once had 1000 users as well. But it was in Egypt. I was running the messaging system for the pyramid building project. We were running Glyphmail 1.5. Talk about a PITA. My server was made out of solid stone. Someone would hammer a message into a sheet of sandstone. Then lay it on the server. Then 50 guys would carry the whole server to the recipient. We were supposed to have 200 guys, but there was a mass killing of the slaves that year and we had to make due.
Done even get me started on disaster recovery! -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:24 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization I once had about 1,000 users with a 70GB store running on a dual Pentium Pro 200MHz ProLiant system that had only 256MB RAM. It worked fine. We had to run that way because the box came with missing memory. We didn't upgrade the memory (to 768MB) for a few weeks. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Don Ely Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization Typically, I don't think you have a friggin clue about what you're talking about. I've had a 20gb+ store on a box running with 512MB of RAM. It worked just fine... D -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:35 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization Typically if you have a 4 gig priv.edb your Memory Utilization is going to be around 800-900 Meg. Obviously this number would fluctuate based on the numbers of users connected to the system. The amount of mail moving back and forth through the database on 4000 users there is no way your running 1 gig of ram unless your strickly speaking of an smtp relay box. -----Original Message----- From: Milton R Dogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:19 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization I have 4000 users running off of less then a Gig or ram. And almost a gig Page file. How many users you planning maintaining? Milton R Dogg Of The Dogg Foundation.. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization 400 Mailboxes and 1 gig of Ram does not sound right. Your primary problem is hardware. This is my minimum recommendation for your hardware requirements. Dual Pentium III 550 + Separate Raid Controller running in Raid 5 config. (2 partitions logical) 2 Gig physical memory. 3 Gig Page File on second partition Run optimizer and move the databases and log files to 2nd partition. -----Original Message----- From: Frazer J Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:09 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: High Physical Memory Utilization One of my colleagues recently reinstalled a 5.5 SP4 Exchange Server on NT4 SP5 (only Exchange was reinstalled) and have noticed that the Physical Memory Utilization sits at around 99% (prior to the rebuild it was around 60%). The server has about 400 mailboxes on it and has 1Gb of physical memory and 1Gb page file. It is the same spec as 4 other servers in the site which all sit at around 60% utilization. As it is a 24x7 service we offer on our server, down time is very limited. Is there any way I can check the performance optimizer settings without stopping the store? 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