I had a similar situation. Two users had mailboxes that had over a million items in it and the mailbox resources view of total k and # of items always indicated 0. You need to look at the mailboxes for the two users that show 0 items.
Dot > -----Original Message----- > From: Arnold, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:07 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Strange behavior > > Hi All. > > I have a strange problem. My exchange server is running pretty slow. > We are running Exchange 5.5, sp4. The priv.mdb is 58 GB, and has slowly > climbed to that size, but performance SUDDENLY went to a crawl this > morning. > There are no strange (or error) events in the event log, SMTP connections > are still working in/out and CPU & memory usage are generally low. > Traffic on the switch is low as well. > > (BTW: I know there is a 60GB threshold that we are dangerously close to, > but > a new 2000 clustered Exchange server will be in place within 6 weeks.) > > I don't expect a list thread of "did you check.." (but I'd welcome it) but > here is something strange: > When I look at the list of mailboxes in Exch Admin on the server and sort > by > size, 4 mailboxes (each is quite large) get sorted above the empty > mailboxes. > So my sort looks like this: > Mailbox Total K Total items > User1 2,227,430 21,129 > User2 2,535,232 18,538 > User3 3,344,777 32,785 > User4 3,444,626 57,871 > User5 0 0 > User6 0 0 > User7 1 1 > ...etc > > The bottom of the list looks normal enough...a few mailboxes some even > near > the same size. > > Has anyone experienced similar phenomena? I think I have noticed this in > the > past, and it may not be related to the performance, but it was bugging me. > > My suggestion was to clean up those mailboxes, export the content, then > blow > them away and recreate them. > > Thanks > Paul > > LEGAL NOTICE - Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is > confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) > only. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not > an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents or any action > taken > (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If > you > are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]