I can see why they did it - seeing Outlook 2000 just hang unresponsive when waiting for it to talk to the server was maddening. Now, at least it doesn't hang the system and tells you what it's doing. The downside is, of course, that users will use that information against you :) ... without understanding it can be part of normal operation and not indicative of a problem.
-----Original Message----- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007, memory usage, and hunt the thimble Yep, that nice little feature where Outlook 2003 lets the end user know that "there is a problem with the Exchange server" was a stroke of genius from Microsoft development. Now everyone is an email administrator... -----Original Message----- From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007, memory usage, and hunt the thimble As well as the other recommendations, the good old "When the users complain that responsiveness is poor" could be a good sign :) -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2008 15:21 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007, memory usage, and hunt the thimble Hi chaps, If the store.exe process of Exchange 2007 is designed to consume as much memory as it can in order to bring the much vaunted (though I would say much missing) speed improvements, then how do you know when your server needs a memory upgrade? What I mean is that, if the memory is always around 95% in use, what indications are there that your exchange box may be running out of ram? We have an exchange 2007 machine running Win 2003 64bit with 8GB of ram in it. It used to have 4GB in it and, not knowing if it need more ram, we plumbed for adding another 4gb. Of course, it instantly used it all. For all I know, it could be needing 28GB and be slowly dying a ram-restricted death. So is there anything in place in Exch2007 now that will indicate when we do, correctly, need to look at additional ram ? Olly __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3312 (20080731) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
