Guest d.barrow@virgin.net Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 The server was running fine until a week ago, but it's slowed to a disc-bound crawl. CPU time is 1-2%, Network activity is negligible, but the HDD is constantly in action. There have been no significant changes to the setup. Task manager shows no unusual activity. At the moment, no-one can even log in. Windows on the server take around 5 minutes to open up, so detective work is horribly slow. Is there a way to determine which process is driving the HDD activity? Ideas for where to look next...most welcome. Thanks
Guest Scare?row Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Server 2003 slow to a crawl perfomance counters?
Guest Dragos CAMARA Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 RE: Server 2003 slow to a crawl hi, try filemon http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx -- Dragos CAMARA MCSA Windows 2003 server "d.barrow@virgin.net" wrote: > The server was running fine until a week ago, but it's slowed to a > disc-bound crawl. CPU time is 1-2%, Network activity is negligible, > but the HDD is constantly in action. There have been no significant > changes to the setup. Task manager shows no unusual activity. At the > moment, no-one can even log in. Windows on the server take around 5 > minutes to open up, so detective work is horribly slow. > > Is there a way to determine which process is driving the HDD activity? > > Ideas for where to look next...most welcome. > > Thanks > >
Guest Worrab Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: Server 2003 slow to a crawl On 12 Jul, 12:02, Dragos CAMARA <drago...@remove-this.hotmail.com> wrote: > hi, > try filemonhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx > -- > Dragos CAMARA > MCSA Windows 2003 server > > "d.bar...@virgin.net" wrote: > > The server was running fine until a week ago, but it's slowed to a > > disc-boundcrawl. CPU time is 1-2%, Network activity is negligible, > > but the HDD is constantly in action. There have been no significant > > changes to the setup. Task manager shows no unusual activity. At the > > moment, no-one can even log in. Windows on the server take around 5 > > minutes to open up, so detective work is horribly slow. > > > Is there a way to determine which process is driving the HDD activity? > > > Ideas for where to look next...most welcome. > > > Thanks Thanks everyone. It turned out to be a Hard Disc error right in the middle of the event log. I guess that every time the event log was written to, it generated an error. Ran chkdsk on the affected drive and it pinpointed the problem. Regards
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