RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://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.commailto: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
Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
We've had several iPhones for a few years. I did find a user account that was kicking an ActiveSync error every now and again (pretty sure he's a DroidX user). When I disable that user's mobile options everything seems to return to normal. My average writes/sec right now are ~4 with a max of 400. I guess I didn't realize that ActiveSync events created the trans logs in Exchange. I guess I'm just at a loss for what a user can be doing on their smartphone that it does this when we've got a couple dozen other Droid + iPhone users that can't produce the same problem. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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 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 --- 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
RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
I would suggest have him reset his phone and set up the synchronization again. He likely doesn't know what's going on. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 We've had several iPhones for a few years. I did find a user account that was kicking an ActiveSync error every now and again (pretty sure he's a DroidX user). When I disable that user's mobile options everything seems to return to normal. My average writes/sec right now are ~4 with a max of 400. I guess I didn't realize that ActiveSync events created the trans logs in Exchange. I guess I'm just at a loss for what a user can be doing on their smartphone that it does this when we've got a couple dozen other Droid + iPhone users that can't produce the same problem. Andrew Greene About.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.commailto: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.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto: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
Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
I turned OMA and friends back on and the performance issue so far hasn't returned, so I'm a little less inclined to think that it as much to do with this user and perhaps more to do with the vast majority of our users leaving for the day around 4:00pm. I'm getting spikes and small plateaus (mesas, perhaps?), but it's not maxing out the writes/sec perfmon graph like it was before at all. By the way, I'm not sure if I'm double-posting to the list or not - each of my messages is showing up twice in GMail. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I would suggest have him reset his phone and set up the synchronization again. He likely doesn’t know what’s going on. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:23 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 We've had several iPhones for a few years. I did find a user account that was kicking an ActiveSync error every now and again (pretty sure he's a DroidX user). When I disable that user's mobile options everything seems to return to normal. My average writes/sec right now are ~4 with a max of 400. I guess I didn't realize that ActiveSync events created the trans logs in Exchange. I guess I'm just at a loss for what a user can be doing on their smartphone that it does this when we've got a couple dozen other Droid + iPhone users that can't produce the same problem. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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 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 --- 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 --- 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 --- To manage subscriptions click here
RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
Gmail has the one you sent plus the one you received. You can configure your subscription so that you don't get sent a copy of messages you post. Insofar as your spikes - you can find a tool called ExMon and it'll show you the user(s) causing all the activity. Make sure you get the Exchange 2003 version. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 I turned OMA and friends back on and the performance issue so far hasn't returned, so I'm a little less inclined to think that it as much to do with this user and perhaps more to do with the vast majority of our users leaving for the day around 4:00pm. I'm getting spikes and small plateaus (mesas, perhaps?), but it's not maxing out the writes/sec perfmon graph like it was before at all. By the way, I'm not sure if I'm double-posting to the list or not - each of my messages is showing up twice in GMail. Andrew Greene About.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I would suggest have him reset his phone and set up the synchronization again. He likely doesn't know what's going on. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.commailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 We've had several iPhones for a few years. I did find a user account that was kicking an ActiveSync error every now and again (pretty sure he's a DroidX user). When I disable that user's mobile options everything seems to return to normal. My average writes/sec right now are ~4 with a max of 400. I guess I didn't realize that ActiveSync events created the trans logs in Exchange. I guess I'm just at a loss for what a user can be doing on their smartphone that it does this when we've got a couple dozen other Droid + iPhone users that can't produce the same problem. Andrew Greene About.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.commailto: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.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe
RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
Aha, you might be getting iTraffic (iCrap) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://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.commailto: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.commailto: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
Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
Installed and collecting data. Many thanks. I'm preparing to get in the line of people who owe you a beer/dinner/firstborn. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Gmail has the one you sent plus the one you received. You can configure your subscription so that you don’t get sent a copy of messages you post. Insofar as your spikes – you can find a tool called ExMon and it’ll show you the user(s) causing all the activity. Make sure you get the Exchange 2003 version. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:37 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 I turned OMA and friends back on and the performance issue so far hasn't returned, so I'm a little less inclined to think that it as much to do with this user and perhaps more to do with the vast majority of our users leaving for the day around 4:00pm. I'm getting spikes and small plateaus (mesas, perhaps?), but it's not maxing out the writes/sec perfmon graph like it was before at all. By the way, I'm not sure if I'm double-posting to the list or not - each of my messages is showing up twice in GMail. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I would suggest have him reset his phone and set up the synchronization again. He likely doesn’t know what’s going on. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:23 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 We've had several iPhones for a few years. I did find a user account that was kicking an ActiveSync error every now and again (pretty sure he's a DroidX user). When I disable that user's mobile options everything seems to return to normal. My average writes/sec right now are ~4 with a max of 400. I guess I didn't realize that ActiveSync events created the trans logs in Exchange. I guess I'm just at a loss for what a user can be doing on their smartphone that it does this when we've got a couple dozen other Droid + iPhone users that can't produce the same problem. Andrew Greene About.me http://about.me/andrewgreene Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgreene On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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
Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
I thought the iphone issue was for 4.0 versions and that 4.01 or 4.02 fixed it? On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Don Andrews don.andr...@safeway.com wrote: Aha, you might be getting iTraffic (iCrap) -- *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:48 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, 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 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 --- 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 -- smsadm --- 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
RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602
Shockingly, not everyone upgrades until they are forced to. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 I thought the iphone issue was for 4.0 versions and that 4.01 or 4.02 fixed it? On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Don Andrews don.andr...@safeway.commailto:don.andr...@safeway.com wrote: Aha, you might be getting iTraffic (iCrap) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: High Writes Per Second, Trans Logs, and Event ID 602 Did someone just get an iphone? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:andrewtheadmin...@gmail.commailto: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.mehttp://about.me/andrewgreene Twitterhttp://twitter.com/andrewgreene LinkedInhttp://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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist -- smsadm --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: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
