Sean, I don't think you saw Andy's sarcasm tags. Maybe the thong he's wearing distracted you.
On everything else you said I agree. > -----Original Message----- > From: McGilligan, Sean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:38 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization > > <more is better> > I'm afraid your logic is flawed > The biggest problem with Microsoft products is they have made it easy > for a multiple of "click and go" people to install the product and hence > in the real world Microsoft's name is taken down by people who don't > know how to design. > Hence a revised emphasize on design in Microsoft 2000 testing. > And yes testing is a good and bad thing but nothing mirrors real world > experience. > If we are rational; MS has bought an understanding of corporate systems > to the masses which has it pros and cons > Just to set the record straight I came from a mainframe and unix > background > Anyone who designs a system for 10 years from a server prospective is in > the insanity bracket. Rational: Moores Law > My $0.02 > > Sean McGilligan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: January 11 2002 1:02 PM > Posted To: exchange > Conversation: High Physical Memory Utilization > Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization > > > More is better. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: McGilligan, Sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:01 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization > > > Just to ask a question?. > Frazer never implied any hardware except RAM. > Why include the dual Pentium scenario? > Windows 2000 can take advantage of SMP but Exchange 2000?. > I'm interested in what Exchange can do with SMP?. > > Sean McGilligan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: January 10 2002 4:48 PM > Posted To: exchange > Conversation: High Physical Memory Utilization > Subject: RE: High Physical Memory Utilization > > > 400 Mailboxes and 1 gig of Ram does not sound right. Your primary > problem is hardware. > > This is my minimum recommendation for your hardware requirements. > > Dual Pentium III 550 + > Separate Raid Controller running in Raid 5 config. (2 partitions > logical) 2 Gig physical memory. 3 Gig Page File on second partition Run > optimizer and move the databases and log files to 2nd partition. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frazer J Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:09 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: High Physical Memory Utilization > > > One of my colleagues recently reinstalled a 5.5 SP4 Exchange Server on > NT4 SP5 (only Exchange was reinstalled) and have noticed that the > Physical Memory Utilization sits at around 99% (prior to the rebuild it > was around 60%). The server has about 400 mailboxes on it and has 1Gb > of physical memory and 1Gb page file. It is the same spec as 4 other > servers in the site which all sit at around 60% utilization. As it is a > 24x7 service we offer on our server, down time is very limited. Is > there any way I can check the performance optimizer settings without > stopping the store? 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