RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-14 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Wouldn't cached mode provide relief if this was the cause? -Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Peck
Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Wouldn't cached mode provide relief if this was the cause? -Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-14 Thread Sean Martin
- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Wouldn't cached mode provide relief if this was the cause? -Original Message- From: Mark

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-14 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
For this type of benchmarking and troubleshooting; you should be running the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant tool, and the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer. On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Mark Milosavljevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Performance on our Exchange 2003 box has deteriorated and

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 5:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Good morning Mark: I don't think you have missed anything. Trying to run 500 users on a 3 drive RAID 5 array (which means you're

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-13 Thread Don Andrews
Wouldn't cached mode provide relief if this was the cause? -Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Hi John, No full text indexing

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Sean Martin
suspect that a replacement server with much better disk array performance will be required. -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 7:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
-Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Are there any guidelines I should be using in sizing server for 500 mailboxes /100 gig total stores

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Sounds to me like your I/O subsystem is slammed and needs to be upgraded. (Slammed is a technical term.) :-) The 1221 event log entries that should be spit out when online maintenance finishes - how much free space do you have in your database

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 The raid 5 is composed of 3 disks each 73.4GB Ultra 320 10K rpm

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 7:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Stores are not large - 100 gig in total (raid array has 144 gig available for stores). Disk layout is operating system raid 1, stores raid 5 and logs single disk. I would look

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Steven Peck
In addition to the stuff Michael has said, there are some client side considerations. http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations I think your bigger problem is elsewhere, but if you had a sudden uptake of Google Desktop Search, people leaving thousands of items in their inbox and

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but as long as CPU and memory are not being overly taxed, the user can get away with expanding his storage into an external array. Either a 7

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Jason Gurtz
Stores are not large - 100 gig in total (raid array has 144 gig available for stores). Disk layout is operating system raid 1, stores raid 5 and logs single disk. I would look at migrating the stores to RAID 10. RAID 5 isn't so great when there's a lot of writes going on and is better suited

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 How often is online maintenance completing? How many disks are in the RAID5 storage array? What speed? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Mark

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but as long as CPU and memory are not being overly taxed, the user can get away with expanding his storage into an external array. Either a 7

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 Stores are not large - 100 gig in total (raid array has 144 gig available for stores). Disk layout is operating system raid 1, stores raid 5 and logs single disk. On-line maintenance takes about 24 hours. Server

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 10:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 An average disk queue length of 10 is abysmal. Running a defrag will not help and may very well hurt. How large are your stores? What

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Don Andrews
I'm seeing our backlog working off now. I expect we'll have a conversation with our rep soon. -Original Message- From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 I just try

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Dennis Rogov
, 2008 6:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 An average disk queue length of 10 is abysmal. Running a defrag will not help and may very well hurt. How large are your stores? What is the hardware of the disks? How often is online maintenance completing

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
An average disk queue length of 10 is abysmal. Running a defrag will not help and may very well hurt. How large are your stores? What is the hardware of the disks? How often is online maintenance completing? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com