[windows2000] Re: Hard drives 100% constantly

  • From: "Chris McEvoy" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:22:54 -0000

Is it not the Norton AV scanning during idle time?

Also, please tell me you are *not* using a file based virus scanner on
the Exchange databases or M drive!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfonso Lopez de Ayala [mailto:alopezdeayala@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Monday 16 December 2002 19:33
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Hard drives 100% constantly
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> Have this small branch server, only one in that branch:=20
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> Dell PE 2400 with 3 RAID5 10K rpm drives.
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> Performance Monitor shows disk activity jumping up to 100%=20
> and staying there for 10mins or more at a time; this happens=20
> very often (only 2-3 minutes "rests"). Processor is below 25%=20
> most of the time. This happens even when there's no clients connected!
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> Server is running Win2K SP3 AD DC, Exch2k SP3, ISA2K SP1, &=20
> Norton AV 7.6, but serves only 5 WinXP Pro clients.
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> Have tried & tried and can't figure out what's going on --=20
> happens even when I stop ISA & Exchange.
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> What should I be looking at?
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> Thanks!
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> A.-
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