Re: Information Store using 95-100% CPU

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From: Michael Abbaticchio[MVP] (nospam_at_abbaticchio.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:47:54 -0400

Yea... that is one of the worst of the worst. All the vendors seem to have
their issues, but Trend and Sybari seem to have the biggest raving fan base
here. I have used Symantec and it worked well, and MacAfee and it was a
disaster initially, but seems to have improved somewhat with the later
versions. 

-- 
regards,
Michael Abbaticchio
MVP for Microsoft Exchange Server
http://exchange.mvps.org
"Rusty Stamper" <RustyStamper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AD5E5C53-7587-42AE-8950-05CEBEE6B151@microsoft.com...
> As a last resort, I completely uninstalled the my AV software and CPU is 
> back
> to 1-5%.  I have never been totally happy with eTrust/InoculateIT and will 
> be
> switching to Sophos after this fiasco!
>
>
> "Rusty Stamper" wrote:
>
>> Shutting down the AV software was the first thing I tried.  The odd thing 
>> is
>> the backups ran fine (BrightStor).  Also forgot to mention that it is
>> store.exe that is using all the CPU.  When I reboot the server, it is 
>> fine,
>> then when I open Outlook 2003 and it starts to sync the folders, that is 
>> when
>> the CPU utilization goes through the roof.
>>
>> "Michael Abbaticchio[MVP]" wrote:
>>
>> > If you are running an anti-virus program, I would try to restart 
>> > associated
>> > services.  Also make sure you are not running file level anti-virus
>> > on-acesss against the transaction logs, smtp spool files, db files, and
>> > other Exchange working files.
>> >
>> > -- 
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > Michael Abbaticchio
>> > MVP for Microsoft Exchange Server
>> > http://exchange.mvps.org
>> >
>> >
>> > "Rusty Stamper" <Rusty Stamper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
>> > message
>> > news:4495E164-7D3F-4855-8E84-DB8E62620A3C@microsoft.com...
>> > >I am not getting any errors in Event Viewer, but my Outlook Clients 
>> > >can't
>> > > connect and OWA is very slow.  I also can't stop and restart the
>> > > MSExchangeIS
>> > > Service, nor can I dismount the store, it says it is 
>> > > stopping/dismounting
>> > > but
>> > > never does.
>> > >
>> > > Exchange 2003 SP1
>> > > Windows 2003
>> > >
>> > > Any ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> >

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