Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 12:19:07 CST 2010
Hello Janet, I also was watching to see if you had a resolution. I am sorry to hear of your woes. I am also sorry to say I have no suggestions. As a simple guy, I would be tempted to do a fresh install and then restore as little as possible, but restoring Exchange sounds like a nightmare. I installed Win7 from Scratch on Sat night on a laptop and it still took me 12 - 16 hours to get it back up and running. Who pays us for this? Nobody. I am only 41, but I feel old these last few months. Mark On 9 February 2010 16:46, Janet Erbach <jerbach at gmail.com> wrote: > I started a thread about a month ago in relation to extremely high > virtual/physical memory usage on our SBS 2008 server. It looks like the > issue may be a two-fold one: > > 1) We customized our installation of SBS 2008 and did NOT turn on the > Microsoft Exchange features. We didn't want them. And it's starting to > look like... > > 2) Having Exchange turned off has adversely affected the SBS Monitoring > Services. SBS Monitoring has not cleaned up after itself properly since it > was first installed, and I've found a couple of troubleshooting references > that mention making sure two specific Exchange services are running. So > I'm > wondering if Monitoring can't clean up after itself without Exchange > running > in the background...The Monitoring database has reached it's built-in 4 gb > limit, and it generates dozens of errors all day long because of that. > > I think that SBS Monitoring is thrashing constantly to try and do what it's > supposed to do - and can't, due to database overgrowth. Does anyone know > how I can go about turning off SBS monitoring completely? Stopping the > services isn't enough...that has had no effect on memory usage. I can't > find any helpful info on the issue through my web searches. And, unlike > SBS 2003, you can't just uninstall SBS Monitoring - it does not appear as a > seperate entity in the add/remove programs list. > > Or...am I better off starting over and re-installing SBS 2008 from scratch > using the default settings so that it SBS 2008 will behave itself? > > Janet Erbach > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >