Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Feb 9 13:47:21 CST 2010
Hi Janet: I guess at this point all we can do is laugh... Have you tried the following link for answers. It will download the htm(l) to your desktop and then you use the web page to link to all sorts of SBS tuning tips. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/1/561c9fd7-0e27-4525-94ec-4d2d38f 61aa3/TSHT_SBS.htm HTH 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 10:34 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SBS 2008 Performance Issues Thanks, Jim. There IS a resolution, you know, but I'm saving the kerosene and the match for our evil IBM copier... On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com