Jim, Do you have any reason to believe there is corruption in the store? For example, are you seeing any Warnings in the EventLog? Or are clients reporting strange things like calendar items going missing? If not, don't worry about it.
If you want to run a check for corruption, just run the /g switch (as Ed suggests, take a copy of the database and run the utility on that copy). Again, unless you are short of disk space, don't worry about compacting the database ... Q192185 Q182903 > -----Original Message----- > From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:04 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Excessive whitespace in Priv.edb and Pub.edb...Problem? > > Sakti, > > Wasn't really looking for a performance boost, so much as I was trying to > rule out possible corruption in the stores. The free space in Computer1 > being roughly 15% of the total store size is what had me a little worried. > > Thanks, > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sakti Chakravarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:01 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Excessive whitespace in Priv.edb and Pub.edb...Problem? > > > Unless you are desperately short of disk space, don't bother - it's a > hassle! Looking at those figures, the whitespace generally is not a > significant proportion of database size, so I would not imagine you'd get > a > noticable performance boost either. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:48 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Excessive whitespace in Priv.edb and Pub.edb...Problem? > > > > Folks, > > > > I have 3 mailbox servers, 1 dedicated IMS server and 1 dedicated > > bridgehead server. All three mailbox servers are Win2k SP2 / Ex5.5 > > SP4+3...the other 2 > > are the same, but Ex5.5 SP4. Mailbox servers are Compaq DL380's with > 1ghz > > processors and 512mb of RAM, running on a Raid-5 setup with 5-18gb > drives. > > OS is on one logical drive, logs on another and stores on a third. IMS > > and > > Bridgehead are just old workstations. We are doing full online > > Exchange-aware backups, using Veritas 8.5. Circular logging is on > > currently. (I know, I know...prior admin forgot to turn off the default > > setting...I have a request into our change board to turn it off on > Monday, > > still awaiting approval.) > > > > Anyway...during the course of the nightly backups / defrags, I get the > > messages below. It takes the system about 30 seconds to backup the DS > > on each server and about 45 minutes to backup the IS. All would seem > > pretty normal to me, if it weren't for the amount of free space in the > > Private Store when it's done. Does this much free space seem > > excessive to anyone else but me? I added the comments to the end of > > each message. > > > > Event Type: Information > > Event Source: MSExchangeIS Private > > Event Category: General > > Event ID: 1221 > > Date: 1/31/2002 > > Time: 12:07:52 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: Computer1 > > Description: > > The database has 1078 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated. (Total priv.edb on this server is only > > 7.4gb) > > > > Event Type: Information > > Event Source: MSExchangeIS Private > > Event Category: General > > Event ID: 1221 > > Date: 1/31/2002 > > Time: 12:21:41 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: Computer2 (Mailbox Server) > > Description: > > The database has 440 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated. (Total priv.edb on this server is only > > 4.83gb) > > > > Event Type: Information > > Event Source: MSExchangeIS Public > > Event Category: General > > Event ID: 1221 > > Date: 1/30/2002 > > Time: 12:00:04 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: Computer3 (Public Folder Server/Mailbox server) > > Description: > > The database has 386 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated. (Total pub.edb on this server is only > > 1.17gb) > > > > Event Type: Information > > Event Source: MSExchangeIS Private > > Event Category: General > > Event ID: 1221 > > Date: 1/30/2002 > > Time: 12:02:34 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: Computer3 > > Description: > > The database has 593 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated. (Total priv.edb on this server is only > > 9.82gb) > > > > Event Type: Information > > Event Source: MSExchangeIS Private > > Event Category: General > > Event ID: 1221 > > Date: 1/31/2002 > > Time: 12:00:02 AM > > User: N/A > > Computer: Computer4 (Dedicated IMS) > > Description: > > The database has 114 megabytes of free space after online > > defragmentation has terminated. (Total priv.edb on this server is only > > 117mb) > > > > I am thinking about doing the following, after 8:00pm this Friday: 1. > > Stop all the Exchange services on the servers in question. 2. Do a > > full offline backup. 3. Run: eseutil /G /ispriv /V /X /O > > 4. Run: eseutil /D /ispriv /P /O > > 5. Run: eseutil /P /ispriv /V /X /O > > 6. Restart all my Exchange services. > > 7. Pray VERY hard that everything turns out okay. > > > > Jim Blunt > > Network / E-mail Admin > > Network / Infrastructure Group > > Bechtel Hanford, Inc. > > 509-372-9188 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
