[dba-Tech] SBS 2008 Performance Issues

Hi Janet:

A friend who is working on a very similar site, SBS 2008, ran with most of
the defaults when he did the install and even with a full RAID, it still
runs like a dog. My job on this install was to redesign and deploy a new
version of their POS and Estimator application (which I am still working
on...). I have been moving as much of the FE application to the desktop as
possible and migrating the BE to the MS SQL and performance has improved but
it is still not stellar.

A client of mine, of which I did the install, has a stand-alone 2008 server,
with many of the SBS applications installed... MS SQL server 2005, IIS, MS
Exchange (really needs its own server), Active directory, etc... But I use a
hardware firewall and have 8 GB of RAM. The box probably runs at least twice
as fast considering the hardware is probably physically slower than the new
SBS box.

Sorry, to say that and then be of no help to improve your performance but as
far as I know there may not be any resolution... but if I hear of some
tweaks or fixes you will be immediately informed through a post here.

Jim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:47 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] SBS 2008 Performance Issues

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
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