RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-22 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Handle with give you a snapshot of all processes and the file handles opened by each process. Filemon (also from Sysinternals/Microsoft) will give you a live scrolling view of file activity that can be very useful for this purpose. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support

Re: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Jeff Bunting
You also might want lo look for heavy fragmentation on the volume, or a failing physical drive in the array (which is hard to detect if the controller reports everything OK). Jeff On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Oliver Marshall < oliver.marsh...@g2support.com> wrote: > I should also mention th

RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
: g2support<http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support> Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 August 2009 11:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Checking whats using the disk SysInternals.com can help. How about Handle.ex

Re: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread asbzone
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:27:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Checking whats using the disk I should also mention that��ve used perfmon to check the average disk queue usage and when the hammering occurs this goes up to as much as 200 to 300. We just need to know whats causing the

RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-21 Thread Oliver Marshall
I should also mention that �ve used perfmon to check the average disk queue usage and when the hammering occurs this goes up to as much as 200 to 300. We just need to know whats causing the activity really. Olly -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2