DiskMon? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Diskmon.mspx
From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need Perfmon help. The system has 4Mb of ram with 1.2 GB free, but the pf usage is 2.74GB. Store is the largest abuser at about 1.2Gb, but I've always felt that was about normal for an SBS box. What should I look for here? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need Perfmon help. Performance is an art, not a science. That being said, start off by using task manager. On the Performance tab, how much physical memory is free? How committed is the page file? If those numbers are bad, you can probably stop. If not, on the Processes tab, add Page faults, Page faults delta, I/O Reads, I/O Writes, and I/O Other; and let's find out what tasks are using the I/O. That'll probably be hint. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Need Perfmon help. I've got a server that is constantly reporting 80-99% disk usage every day. I setup a Trace log for Disk input/output and a Counter Log looking at the Physical Disk totals of % Disk and Idle time, Avg. Queue length, then the same for each of the spindles. I've got a good set of etl and blg files. I used tracerpt to create the CSV dumpfile and workload text files, but relog won't work on the blg files. It keeps telling me: "Error: The specified record was not found in the log file." Plus I can't make hide nor hair of what I'm suppose to be looking for in the CSV file. How do I take these files and get some sort of sense as to why this server feels the need to spend all it's time accessing the hard drive? Regards, Jim Majorowicz, MCP Sr. Network Engineer Whitsell Computer Services (503) 297-8440x12 www.whitsell.com We can support you no matter where you are. Ask me for details. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
