Are you sure the too many simultaneous "things" happening isn't referencing the fact that MSDE does arbitrary performance throttling when there are more than 8 active operations in progress.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa224554.aspx - Andy O. >-----Original Message----- >From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:16 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: Business Contact Manager for Outlook - sqlservr (MSDE) consuming >much CPU. > >So, long story short, Management has been trying to find alternatives to >investing in Exchange server. Currently we use a Linux email server and >employees pop3 their mail. Well, they wanted group calendaring. So we >found this product called Officecalendar which syncs various employees >calendars. > > >It is a piece of shit. But that's not the biggest problem. > > >Then they wanted to ditch ACT for a different shared contact solution. So >we try Business Contact Manager. Central SQL database, seamless >integration >into Outlook, seems like a great idea. > > >All of this headache, just to avoid Exchange, which would do all of this! > > >In the meantime, WTF is with BCM and WTF is it doing that is causing the >MSDE instance on the server to be going balls-to-the wall seemingly at >random, which causes every Outlook client to freeze momentarily, or just >plain crash? > > >I've connected to it with SQL Server's Enterprise Manager to check its logs >out, and it is constantly logging that junk about too many simultaneous >things happening (since it is MSDE after all). I tried setting it to use 2 >gigs of RAM (db is 650mb) to hopefully keep everything cached, to no avail. >I'd love to put the full SQL server on there but this is a developers >version and technically shouldn't be used in production. > > >We plan on going with Exchange as soon as Small Business Server 2008 comes >out, but this is painful, and I wonder if any of you have dealt with this? > > > >Phillip Partipilo >Parametric Solutions Inc. >Jupiter, Florida >(561) 747-6107 > > > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
