Doesn't even take a write. A completely idle system generates a log flush every 
X minutes (I can't remember how often X is on Exchange 2003).  But it's 
basically there to prove that the system hasn't died (this is much more 
important for clusters and heartbeats, but does apply to single systems too).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: What creates Exchange log files

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> What activity generates the Exchange log files? dumb Q, but I have an E2K3
> server that has no traffic going to it but it still regularly generates log
> files.

  Any write to the Exchange database.

  I expect even an "empty" Exchange system will have background tasks
recording their progress or state.

-- Ben

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