PCs are not set for Scheduled Scans of any drives. They only have on-access scan for reading of a file. Like standard A/V configurations... Sophos is the AV product. I am not sure this is responsible for it.
Would Ethereal help me determine anything here? I am not adept at using Ethereal and how to inspect packets for, in this case, access to something on the F: drive (or users$ network share). JR Original Message: ----------------- From: Klint Price [email protected] Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:53 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: finding out what is causing disk to thrash? Are your client PCs doing AV scans of the folder? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: finding out what is causing disk to thrash? Looking for ideas here. I have a File server (windows 2003) that is connected to a SAN via the F: drive. The F: drive is used to store user data (home folders). The F: drive is showing bad performance. When viewing Windows Performance Monitoring, the counter Disk Read % for F: is constantly pegged at 100%. Disk Write% on F: seems okay at < 10%. So, I'm trying to find out what is causing the constant reads. When I run Process Monitor (Filemon) on the server, I don't see anything that is hitting F: and causing the issue. I'm guessing that process monitor is NOT showing me the activity on F: from my networked PCs that are accessing the user share on the F: drive. So.... Is there a way to find out what/who is causing my disks to constantly be 100% Disk Read? I don't see anything outstanding under Open Files in Computer Management either... Ideas? -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ 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/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
