If you can look in your Event Viewer and see that the online defrag Exchange does overnight will give you back 20-30GB of space, go for it. Run the eseutil /d utility. But if you are only seeing MBs of space you would regain, forget about it. It's not worth the time nor is it worth the resources needed to perform the task (Exchange Server must be offline; Users will not have access to their mailboxes while you are performing this task; you will have to watch the damn thing to make sure it doesn't error out half-way through the process, and then have to kick it off again). I wouldn't take the chance unless I was gaining back something sizeable.
Just my .02� Geoff....... -----Original Message----- From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Diskkeeper and Exchange- My experience As noted before I found my store.exe at 500,000 K this morning ( An exchange server for 25 people) and the CPU at 100%. Restarting IS fixed the memory usage but not the CPU usage. So I killed DiskKeeper 7 which I had running in "smart schedule" mode. But it took me a few hours to figure that it was the process using all the CPU. (It took me a bit of time to take a clear look and not run around like a chicken with it's head cut off. And yes I learned a thing or two). So then read a bit and e-mailed exec. Software. They indicate that I should not have to exclude any files from the DK defrag process and that they had no further info on what could have happened. And they also indicate that I should run an offline defrag of exchange using DK once a month or so. Of course I asked for data to support this suggestion as it seems many folks here never use the exchange offline defrag. Jim Liddil _________________________________________________________________ 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]
