Ex55 sp4, 25GB private, 45GB public with a large public folder structure containing custom application data with two copies of everything (one user changeable, one RO) - however the single instance storage counter is at 3.5, while I expected something below 2. Disk was running low.
Last week I performed a large archival (basically a scripted selective copy to pst and delete original of old items), for about 25GB worth of PSTs. Then I lowered the Public Information store - Deleted Item retention time to 1 day. After some days (and full backups done) the 1221 event did not log any new free space in the public store. Caught by doubt (do you need to stop the store in order to activate the Deleted Item retention time change ? I thought not) I tried to stop the Information Store service. After about 10 hours of "service stopping" I killed store.exe and restarted, it logged recovery, replayed 1 single log file, appareantly everything ok. A couple of hours later the server hiccuped (every client freezed for about two minutes, then continued normaly) and logged at first MSExchangeIs Public 1125 An error occurred. Function name or description of problem: EcCategorizeMessage Error: 0x8004010f and 20 minutes later MSExchangeIs Public 1163 The set of change keys in folder 4-451D18 were automatically repaired. The only reference I found in technet for EcCategorizeMessage is MKBA 192053 which does not apply (no Dr Watson, sp4 applied while the fix for that is included in sp2). I didn't find any reference to event 1163. Investigation turned up no problem. How to discover which folder is 4-451D18 ? Next day, space is still not freeing up. As a test I located the 10 PFs with the biggest "Public Folder Resources" - "Deleted Items K", and emptied those from outlook. Space freed shot up to about 2G after some time (currently IS Maintenance is running continously), however it won't go up further. On the other hand the "MsExchange Public" - "Total Size of Recoverable Items" performance counter signs up for about 7.8GB - better than nothing, but still far less than the (at least) half of 25GB of PSTs. How to proceed ? Im setting up another system where to restore the store for a isinteg and eseutil /g check. Could the space not freeing up be related to a db corruption issue (service wouldn't stop...) ? On the other hand there really could be some error in ou application, with the whole stuff still present somewhere else not found (after all the SIS counter was at 3.5, not 1.5>x>2 as expected), however in that case I'd expected the 1221 event to not log exactly ~2GB worth of free space after deleting the deleted items from outlook for some PF with a total of ~2GB (accordingly to ex admin.exe). I could code a script using outlook or cdo in order to walk the whole store and log every mailitem.EntryID and folder where it occurs, in this way I could discover where (if) there are >2 copies for lots of elements. Anybody knows if the EntryIDs for duplicated copies of the same message are comparable ? The CDO documentation of the message object .ID says you need to use objSession.CompareID (for some million objects that would be a gargantuan task), the outlook documentation won't say a word about that. If it matters, about half of those objects are duplicated with a cdo event script (oMsg.CopyTo()), the other half with a BCC on delivery. Sensible thing would be calling PSS, but management won't do that currently (internal problems). Any idea ? Please ? Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 fax _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
