RE: [HELP] Transaction logs grow rapidly

Tested it for open relay?

"Seroja" wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> I need a help over here...
>
> All of sudden one of my Exchange Server at the remote site stopped
> working yesterday. I logged on remotely and found that the partition
> logs was full, and this caused databases to dismounted. Normally
> transaction log files grow at ~4 GB / day, but I noticed that since
> yesterday the log files has grown to 15 GB however the size of
> Priv.edb/stm and
> Pub.edb/stm didn't changed much around 20 GB and 5 GB respectively for
> 200 users. When the partition logs became full the databases got
> dismounted.
>
> I moved a few log files that has been committed to databases and then
> was able to mount the databases. I turned on circular logging for the
> storage group, restart the IS, then most of the logs file were
> cleared. After this, I ran the backup successfully.
>
> At this point I noticed that the log files grows at 'normal' speed,
> around 1 to 2 files in 30 minutes. This was on the night when all
> users already left the office. I checked the queue to this Exchange
> server from another Exchange servers in my Administrative Groups,
> nothing looked suspicious, the queue has only about 40 messages and
> it's total size is around 5 MB. The queue contains e-mail messages and
> also public folder replication messages.
>
> I waited for some time, it appeared normal to me, Exchange wrote 5 to
> 6 log files before the circular logging deleted the oldest one. So I
> thought everything was OK, then I turned off the circular logging and
> restarted the Exchange server.
>
> Problem came back after server restart :(, lots of harddisk activity
> going on, and I was unable to logon via RDP because the server is
> busy. Logon through console also took lots of time.
>
> The situation is now as follows:
>
> - the mailbox store is up, but public folder is was down
> - tested that e-mail traffic is working, but calendaring, meeting
> request gives some errors
> - Ms Exchange MTA service is Stopping
> - Ms Exchange Information Store is Starting
> - Event Viewer says Exchange is allocating resources for the Public
> Folder databases, and there is another one says that Virtual Machine
> for PF can not be created because the Exchange store is not running
> - Transaction Log files grows at the speed of one file per minute.
> Heavy harddisk activity eventhough no users is using the mail system
> - Apparently circular logging is still active, oldest log file is
> deleted, eventhough the circular logging option is cleared.
> - ESM queue to this server or from this server are low, about 40 - 50
> messages, 5 MB in total.
>
>
> I would very appreciate if anyone can help me sort my problem out and
> rectify it. I am thinking about restarting the server again but not
> sure if it would help much.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Seroja
>
>
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