23 Minutes to Shutdown Enterprise Server 2003?
- From: "Keith Jakobs, MCP" <elohir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:29:23 -0800
Greetings:
We have a new box we recently purchased to serve exclusively as a warm
standby SQL server. The only thing it is to be doing will be receiving log
shipping jobs from our primary SQL server. The two boxes are basically the
same hardware, just one has faster processors, but both are quad CPU with 8
GB of memory. The older box is running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and
the new one is running on Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.
The only thing I have installed on the new box is the O/S, SQL Server, and
SP3 (not SP4 due to memory concerns). I have run the Security Configuration
Wizard on the box. The original box is also only SQL SP3, but running SP4 of
Windows 2000.
Well, the new box has suddenly decided to take about 23 minutes to Shut
Down!!!! This started last week when I applied the latest run security of
patches, and now continues to do so every time. After initiating shutdown,
the server gives me the usual screens about saving my settings, and shutting
down windows, all rather quickly. However, at this point, it gives me the
plain blank gray screen as it continues to shut down windows. Apparently,
the event log records that the Event Log service has been stopped, and the
RAID volume gets busy for a solid 20 minutes or so before the system finally
shuts down. Whatever is holding up the O/S, is doing so after the Event log
has stopped, so there does not seem to be any other related events logged.
I have a hard time believeing this is my RAID arrray on EACH reboot, so can
anyone provide me with some ideas or notions as to what I might be looking
for? As I said, this is supposed to be a warm standby for a VERY critical
database server, so it needs to be supremely reliable, and starting off the
gun with 20 minute shutdowns is NOT a good way to start.
TIA for any help or advice.
Keith C. Jakobs, MCP
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