Like the other guys said - first thing I'd take a look at is the network. But the second thing - start perfmon on that Exchange server. Is the disk queue averaging over 1? Is paging averaging over 20? Is the processor averaging over 70%?
Any of these could be causing the issue as well... Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle I have a really odd behavior pattern happening here and I'm sort of at a loss as to how to fix it. All of the sudden starting toward the end of last week (Thursday or Friday) the mail store seems to be acting "funny". Outlook connections all over the building are popping the "Trying to retrieve information" message. To the point where just changing folders in the mailbox can take up to 30 seconds or so. This morning I tried to delete about 1800 messages from a folder in my mailbox and it's taken about 30 minutes and still not done, if the MS status bar is right it will have taken about 40 minutes to delete those messages, and thats just moving them to the deleted items bin, not a shift-delete. Pertinent data: Exchange 2003 SP2 Windows 2003 SP1 2 Dual Core 2.8Ghz Processors 4GB Ram Mailbox & Public folder store is on a 4Gb Fiber Channel SAN Priv1.mdb = 130GB Priv1.stm = 51GB We shutdown the system for maintenance on the SAN this weekend, and that apparently has NOT solved the problem. I need some advice as to where the look for the issue. I've toyed with the idea of setting up a second store and migrating users to the new store, but I'm not sure if that will help. We have a possible archiving project in the future as well, but that's not going to help right now. I have mailboxes as large as 9.5 GB and as small as POP3 that don't leave anything on the server. To answer the inevitable question.. no the big mailbox users never delete anything (hence the archiving project). Suggestions, ideas? TIA Robb ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
