Could a user be running something akin to Google desktop and having it index the network drives?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
