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Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 List, Wanted to see if I could enlist your help to at least point me in the right direction on an issue we're having with our Exchange 2003 server running on Windows Server 2003. This primarily has to do with our disks which are two separate hardware RAIDs. One RAID is broken up into two logical drives - C: for system files and F: for Exchange transaction logs. The other RAID is one logical drive D: which houses all of our Exchange databases. Our last complete backup completed yesterday at around 7:00am and since then we have noticed three things occurring: 1. The server is generating an inordinately high amount of transaction logs for our organization at almost 40GB - a normal day for us can produce ~4GB. 2. The number of disk writes is also abnormally high. Using perfmon I've observed the writes/sec at an average of over 1,000 and highs of over 5,500. 3. Event ID 602 appeared in our event viewer. This event basically tells us to perform an offline defragmentation of the databases. We have four mailbox stores that range in size (107GB, 57GB, 12GB, and 10GB). I've scheduled a maintenance window for this weekend to perform the offline defrag as recommended by the event error. The only thing that we've done recently is that a couple of weeks ago we deleted a number of mailboxes (~50) as part of a measure to stay under our GFI MailArchiver license count. None of the mailboxes were particularly large. I wanted to find out if anyone else had experienced anything like this before or if anyone had run into Event ID 602 before. Any help, even to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Andrew Greene About.me<http://about.me/andrewgreene> Twitter<http://twitter.com/andrewgreene> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene> --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist