I believe Ed's employer's controllers also allow one to do the same thing. Not a good idea, but its possible, I believe.
I guess theoretically one could build 2 9GB's and an 18GB into 2 RAID1 sets. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:54 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: High Memory Usage for Store.exe > > > 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. > > Thanks > > --Alex Alborzfard > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=& > lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=& > lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=& lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
