Believe it or not, I have seen people do things like that with an odd number of drives, AND at the hardware level. The Intel RAID controllers for instance allow to create virtual RAID volumes. It is bizarre and I wouldn't want to do something like this myself. What the controller does is that it scoops up the entire drive space from all available drives that are connected to the controller. Then it allows to divide that space into partitions and then to create RAID volumes out of those partitions.
Again, I would stay away from such "advanced" features. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe How do you get two mirror sets with three drives? 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 Alex Alborzfard Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe The server is more than 3 years old, a Dell PowerEdge 2400. Dual 500 Proc, 512MB RAM, 3 HDs, Hardware RAIDed (2 mirror sets). Number of mailboxes is 50, but heavy users. There are also about 255 CRs, being used heavily to forward emails to our company's EX2K servers mailboxes. I've already ran the Optimizer and moved IS and other stuff to other drives. The server object's Database Path lists only the following on the system drive: Directory Working Path (C:\exchsrvr\DSADATA) Information Store Working Path (C:\exchsrvr\MDBDATA) --Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe I could help if you could tell us about the hardware a bit..Proc, HD's , RAID? (s), number of users 2 cents bill -----Original Message----- From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe Ok, the consensus is: it's normal. Ed, I agree on using as much memory as possible, but to the point of making EX non-responsive?! I guess a memory upgrade is in order. On a somewhat related note, I originally installed Exchange on the System partition (drive). Now it's running out of space. Besides reinstalling Exchange and put it on another drive, which is not very practical, since it's a production machine, do I have another option? --Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe You didn't buy all that memory for it to sit unused, now did you? 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 Alex Alborzfard Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:21 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: High Memory Usage for Store.exe EX 5.5, SP4 on NT 4 SP6a Store.exe is showing a high memory usage. The box has 512MB of memory, of which between 396-400MB are being used by Store.exe. Isn't this too high? Besides the obvious (adding more memory), what can be done to improve the EX performance. With other EX services, AV software and other misc. services, there is not much Available Memory: between 4-18MB. This has created problems in sending and receiving, as the server sometimes doesn't respond in time and just times out. 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