Have you killed search indexing yet? :-)

Also, ethereal should help looking for what remote machine might be hitting
it. Even if you're not good with it, you can do some filtering and narrow
things down a bit. The suggestion of pulling the network cable to isolate
local/remote is also a good one...

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Charlie Kaiser
[email protected]
Kingman, AZ
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> -----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?
> 
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