wow, eseutil.exe must have been revamped nicely in 2003 or the edb structure is much more efficient. We haven't gone to 2003 yet, but should be there in 6 months or so. _____ From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:admindoug@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:51 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Offline Defrag http://www.MSExchange.org/ Here are the stats from my offline defrag. Factors other than size will come into play, as you can see below. The 94GB DB only took 76 minutes, whereas the 20GB took 99 minutes. That probably had something to do with the 94GB DB have about 89% whitespace in it. If you don't mind, put together some stats like I have below and post them to the list when you are done. Server 2003 SP1 Exchange 2003 SP1 2 x 2.8GHz HT Xeons 4GB RAM Direct attached 5 X 73.4GB hard drives, RAID5---IBM 6M controller Both ran with the following syntax: eseutil.exe /d f:\blahblah\DB DatabaseA was 94GB before defrag 12GB after defrag Time elapsed: 76 minutes DatabaseB was 20GB before defrag 14GB after defrag Time elapsed: 99 minutes _______________________________________________________________________ Ran with the following syntax: eseutil.exe /d f:\blahblah\DB /p DatabaseB was 20GB before defrag 14GB after defrag Time elapsed: 77 minutes ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: gtaylor@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ***Note: The information contained in this message, including any attachments, may be privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Sender immediately by a "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic or paper copies of the communication, including any attachments.