RE: PST files. This might well be part of the issue:
#net file | findstr /i pst 21310605 J:\Home\...\Archive PSTs\archive.pst USER1 0 21310606 J:\Home\USER1\Archive PSTs\xxxxx.PST USER1 0 21359101 J:\Home\...\xxxx Folders.pst USER2 2 21375086 J:\Home\...\Outlook\xxxxxxxx.pst USER3 1 21375089 J:\Home\...\Outlook\~xxxxxxxx.pst.tmp USER3 0 21375091 J:\Home\...\Outlook\Jokes.pst USER3 1 21375094 J:\Home\...\Outlook\~Jokes.pst.tmp USER3 0 21386255 J:\Home\USER4\Private\USER4.pst USER4 1 Kurt On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 19:25, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote: > Well, the % Interrupts/DPC Time/Kernel Mode CPU time isn't necessarily > going to be fixed by x64. It may very well mean you've got some crappy > drivers in play. > > The disk stuff indicates the disk is not fast enough to keep up with > demand. You can solve that with more spindles or faster spindles. > > Page Pool utilization will be resolved by x64 (or even x86 on 2008). > That's indicative of crappy drivers, large tokens, and/or people doing > things like using PSTs off file shares. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > br...@briandesmond.com > > w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Picking up file server tuning again > > Well, the kernel mode, paged pool, and interrupt time are items that will > be specifically reduced with an x64 OS. > > The I/O situation is indicative of disk queuing which is "hypervisor > related". Dunno how you optimize that in VMware, there are a number of > potentials in Hyper-V. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:33 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Picking up file server tuning again > > It *is* a busy box, and migrating the iSCSI LUNs to a 64bit server is > something I've definitely considered. I have a Dell R310 with 16gb RAM that > I could use, but it's already got 9 active VMs, although they're not heavy > hitters. AFAICT, probably the highest-use machines on the ESXi 4.1 box are > the secondary DC (no FSMO roles, but does do DNS and > WINS) and the issuing CA box. > > It's currently a VM on what I believe to be an underpowered ESX 3.5 box - > I think it's possible that it's simply starved for resources on that ESX > box. > > I'm sure there's something out there like perfmon for VMware that I can > use to capture performance over time - I'd like to measure and analyze the > performance of the ESX 3.5 box while the backups are happening against the > file server. > > I'm also considering moving the Win2k3 file server VM to the ESX box and > seeing if the situation improves. > > Kurt > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:08, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> > wrote: > > That's a busy box. I'd suggest moving to a 64-bit OS. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:00 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Picking up file server tuning again > > > > Ran PAL against the log. > > > > Um, wow. It's a freaking christmas tree - red and yellow all over the > > place in CPU and disk. > > > > Who should I be talking with to analyze this? > > > > A sample of the issues shown - all of which show up in more than one > > time slice - some in every or almost every slice: > > o- More than 50% Processor Utilization > > o- More than 30% privileged (kernel) mode CPU usage > > o- More than 2 packets are waiting in the output queue > > o- Greater than 25ms physical disk READ response times > > o- Greater than 25ms physical disk WRITE response times > > o- More than 80% of Pool Paged Kernel Memory Used > > o- More than 2 I/O's are waiting on the physical disk > > o- 20 (Processor(_Total)\DPC Rate) > > o- More than 30% Interrupt Time > > o- Greater than 1000 page inputs per second (Memory\Pages Input/sec) > > > > Some things that showed no alerts: > > o- Memory\Available MBytes > > o- Memory\Free System Page Table Entrie > > o- Memory\Pages/sec > > o- Memory\System Cache Resident Bytes > > o- Memory\Cache Bytes > > o- Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use > > o- Network Interface(*)\% Network Utilization > > MS TCP Loopback interface > > VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter > > VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter#1 > > o- Network Interface(*)\Packets Outbound Errors > > MS TCP Loopback interface > > VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter > > VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter#1 > > > > > > Kurt > > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 16:04, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> > wrote: > >> Rather than trying to do this yourself, check out PAL - > http://pal.codeplex.com/. It will setup all the right counters for you > and crunch the data. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Brian Desmond > >> br...@briandesmond.com > >> > >> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:43 PM > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > >> Subject: Picking up file server tuning again > >> > >> I'm getting back to monitoring my situation with the file server again, > and just finished a perfmon session covering the 3rd through the 7th of > this month. Simultaneously, I set up perfmon on the same workstation to > monitor the backup server. > >> > >> If anyone cares to help, I'd be deeply appreciative. > >> > >> I set up perfmon on a Win7 VM on an ESXi 4.1 host to take measurements > at 60 second intervals of a whole bunch of counters, many of them probably > just noise. > >> > >> I'll describe the history of the configuration first, however: > >> > >> The file server is a Win2k3 R2 VM running on a ESX 3.5 host with 16g of > RAM - it's one of 10 VMs, and is definitely the heaviest hitter in terms of > disk I/O. About 2.5-3 months ago we noticed that the time to completion for > the weekly full backups spiked dramatically. > >> > >> Prior to that time, the fulls would start around 7pm on a Friday, and > finish by about 7pm on Sunday. > >> > >> Now they take until Thursday or Friday to complete. > >> > >> This coincided with some changes to the environment: I had to move > >> the VM to a new host (it was a manual copy - we don't have vmotion > >> licensed and configured for these hosts) and at about that time I > >> also had to expand 2 of the 4 LUNS. Finally, the OS drive for the VM > >> on the old host was on a LUN on our Lefthand unit - I had to migrate > >> it to the local disk storage on the new home for the VM. The 4 data > >> drives for this VM are attached via the MSFT iSCSI client running on > >> the VM, not through VMWare's iSCSI client. So, at that point, all of > >> the LUNS were on the Lefthand SAN, which is a 3-node cluster, and we > >> use 2-way replication for all LUNS. The 2 LUNS that were expanded > >> went to 2tb or slightly beyond. The Lefthand has two NSM 2060s and a > >> P4300G2, with 6 and 8 disks each, respectively - a total of 20 disks > >> > >> Since that time, I've also added in our EMC VNXe 3100 with 6 disks in > it in a RAID6 array. I mention this because this means that all of the file > systems on the VNXe are clean and defragged. > >> > >> Currently, I've migrated 3 of the 4 data LUNs for the VM to the EMC. I > made sure to align the partitions on the EMC to a megabyte boundary. > >> > >> So, to make this simpler to visualize, a little table: > >> > >> c: - local disk on ESX 3.5, 40gb, 23.6gb free > >> j: - iSCSI LUN on Lefthand, 2.5tb, 900gb free > >> k: - iSCSI LUN on VNXe, 1.98tb, 336gb free > >> l: - iSCSI LUN on VNXe, 1tb, 79gb free > >> m: - iSCSI LUN on VNXe 750gb, 425gb free > >> > >> I tried to capture separate disk queue stats for each LUN, but in spite > of selecting and adding each drive letter separately in the perfmon > interface, all I got was _Total. > >> > >> Selected stats are as follows: > >> > >> PhysicalDisk counters > >> Current disk queue length - average 0.483, maximum 33.000 Average > >> disk read queue length - 0.037, maximum 1.294 %disk time - average > >> 34.068, maximum 153.877 Average disk write queue length - average > >> 0.645, maximum 2.828 Average disk queue length - average 0.681, > >> maximum 3.078 > >> > >> I have more data on PhysicalDisk, and data on other objects, including > Memory, NetworkInterface, Paging File, Processor and Server Work Queues. > >> > >> If anyone has thoughts, I'd surely like to hear them. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Kurt > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> 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 ntsysadmin > >> > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> 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 ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > 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 ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > 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 ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > 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 ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > 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 ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > 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 ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- 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 ntsysadmin
