Diagnosing the cause of the server lockups should be done using perfmon looking at things like CPU utilization, RPC requests and disk I/O as a first line of troubleshooting.
On 4/3/03 7:34, "Hooks, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why? How does that solve the problem I have today? I only have 150 users and > do not anticipate the store will grow over 16 gigs again. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:38 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange locks up > > > Buy Enterprise Edition. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hooks, Tim > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:28 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange locks up > > > Hello All, > > Last Wednesday, one week ago, without any warning our information store > stopped - reached the 16 gig limit. What I did not know was that the 16 > gigs is a total of both the .stm file and the .edb file. I do not know > if the public folders contributed to the 16 gigs or not as ours only > account for 100 MB. > > My first gripe - you would think there might be a warning message or two > in the event log before it shuts down....!? > > Anyways I knew we were getting closer to the limit and I helped some > people get their mailboxes cleaned out in the 2 weeks previous. Here are > the steps we followed. Rebooted. IS still would not load. Ran eseutil > Brought it online - deleted the deleted items manually and changed the > deleted item retention time from 30 days to 6 days. Ran eseutil again - > recaptured 5 gigs. > > Since that day I have the server freeze up several times a day - anyone > in Outlook notices - wait a few minutes and everything comes back. If I > am at the server I can't even get logged in until it frees up. I have > rebooted the server a couple times - no use. The event log reports very, > very little. I get a 2078 information error about dsaccess stopping, > however this message comes after the slowdown and things are working > again - more like a symptom of an underlying problem. I turned up > dsaccess logging - no useful info there. > > Here is the setup: > Exchange 2000, sp3 > Windows 2000, sp3 > dual 1.6 processors > 1.5 gigs RAM > Compaq proliant, Hardware raid 5 and raid 1 for logs > single domain, single site, one exchange server, 150 users running Trend > scanmail for exchange Installed Trend Interscan Messaging suite to block > spam about 2 weeks ago - however, everything was just fine until the IS > reached its limit. > > Any comments, suggestions or ideas on how to solve this one are > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Tim Hooks > Columbus, Ohio > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
