Re: SBS Haulting For a Second every few minutes
- From: "Ben" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:48:46 +0100
Hi
Thanks for your posts...
Server: Dell 2600
Hard drives:
System RAID 0, 15k SCSI
Data RAID 5, 4 Drives 15k SCSI
CPU 2x 3.06 Zeon
RAM 2gb
Regards
B
"Steve" <newsgroup@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...and what are your basic CPU and RAM specs on the server?
"Ben" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you both for your posts.
Perfmon does seem to show peaks hitting 100% from some of the AVG Disk
Queue counters, although these peaks are more regular than the haults.
The server is due for a Defrag, the last being 7 weeks ago, we do have
over 30% space free on all drives.
I will arrange a defrag tonight and post back.
Thanks
B
"Leonid S. Knyshov" <lknyshov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Ben" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi
I have been noticing that for a couple of days our SBS has been
'haulting' for a second then carrying on the task it was performing.
I noticed this when using Terminal Services to administer it that it
would Freeze for a second and carry on. We are also using VPN access
through RRAS to access a terminal services and the access to that TS
has the same hault (I assume it is because network traffic is forced
though it). Also our users of workstations have been complaining about
more Egg Timers when printing or opening documents stored on the
server.
I have run Perfmon on processor time used by services and cannot seem
to see a pattern between the haults and a particular service taking CPU
time.
We have Dell openmanage monitoring the hardware for problems, there
appears to be no issues here.
Run perfmon again but look at a different counter. One of the default
counters is the Avg Disk Queue counter. What you are describing is
indicative of disk operations. Note that the Exchange component writes
to disk every 5MB of data it receives. If you are getting overloaded
with spam, such as perhaps one of your workstations is compromised it
could compound the effect. Also check to make sure your disk array is
not in degraded state. A 3-disk RAID5 with a failed 3rd disk tends to
perform terribly.
If you don't see the counter's data, it's probably pegged at 100%. Click
the counter name and then click the highlighter icon (looks like a light
bulb) to see it clearly highlighted. If it's not disk, it could be
network gear. As an experiment for that, I'd try t odo do a direct
remote desktop from one workstation to another that's on the same
switch. What's in the event logs? If you configured monitoring and
reporting wizard, does it report any thresholds reached?
Just a few things to try.
--
Leonid S. Knyshov, CEO
Crashproof Solutions, LLC - http://www.crashproofsolutions.com
MCP Exchange 2003/Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner
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