No need to be worried. Whether or not is is excessive is wholly your decision based on your environment and the sizing of your server.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Blunt, James H (Jim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 7:04 PM 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]
