I have a windows 2000 sp4 server running sql 2000 sp3, and the database gives somewhat poor performance. I suppose this is probably directly attributable to whatever is also causing the hard drive light to stay on pretty much all the time. I'm also a bit worried that I'm going to burn out my hard drives. Task manager is clean, nothing worth mentioning in the startup. I tried turning off a bunch of services one at a time, but the light never turned off. Turned off indexing on all partitions, no change. Clean virus scan, and clean ad-aware scan. What the heck could be whacking the hard drive like that? If I reboot, the light goes out, indicating that it is at least possible for the light to not be on. And sometimes when I'm actually using the console, it will blink a bit. Any ideas what further investigating I should do?
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hard drive light is on constantly, causing poor performance
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What server is this? I know that IBM drives stay off, and light only when accessed, while the newer Dell's have two lights, one that's always on and the other that shows drive access.
Also, in task manager sort based upon CPU usage...what's running?
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Also, in task manager sort based upon CPU usage...what's running?
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Bah, I figured it out.
To answer your question, it's a white box, desktop class, but with raid1 and running 2000 server. The hdd light operates normally, blinking during activity.
The sql server back up to its own hard drive nightly, and then the next day another server remotely copies (robocopy) the file over to a backup drive that we take out of the building. The backup file is over 6 gigs, so the copy takes a while, and it slows down the server while it runs. Of course every time I look at it, the light is on, because that is the only time anyone complains about it. For some reason, the file copy sometimes aborts and starts over, making it take longer than should be strictly necessary. I still may need to troubleshoot that part. And since another machine executes the transfer, I couldn't glean anything from the console on the affected system. And of course windows doesn't show anything useful in the task manager, except every now and then I see "system" jump up to 6-10 percent, and I suspect that process contains the copy.
Bleh, my bad, I should have figured that out myself.. thanks though
To answer your question, it's a white box, desktop class, but with raid1 and running 2000 server. The hdd light operates normally, blinking during activity.
The sql server back up to its own hard drive nightly, and then the next day another server remotely copies (robocopy) the file over to a backup drive that we take out of the building. The backup file is over 6 gigs, so the copy takes a while, and it slows down the server while it runs. Of course every time I look at it, the light is on, because that is the only time anyone complains about it. For some reason, the file copy sometimes aborts and starts over, making it take longer than should be strictly necessary. I still may need to troubleshoot that part. And since another machine executes the transfer, I couldn't glean anything from the console on the affected system. And of course windows doesn't show anything useful in the task manager, except every now and then I see "system" jump up to 6-10 percent, and I suspect that process contains the copy.
Bleh, my bad, I should have figured that out myself.. thanks though
You best use some performance counters to determine drive activity. That will certainly tell you what's going on.
[google]performance monitor drive activity[/google]
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Jmille -
I am setting up a new file replication system, and want to use robocopy to handle the major work. The problem is that the version of robocopy available from microsoft only works on win 2003, and my servers are all win 2000. Do you have the old robocopy (1.95 or 1.96) that works with win 2000 kicking around?
You help is greatly appreciated.
I am setting up a new file replication system, and want to use robocopy to handle the major work. The problem is that the version of robocopy available from microsoft only works on win 2003, and my servers are all win 2000. Do you have the old robocopy (1.95 or 1.96) that works with win 2000 kicking around?
You help is greatly appreciated.
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Turn of SMB signing on all Win2000 machines/servers, if your internal security permits.XP/Win 2003 machines are not affected.
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correction....
That was supposed to be turn off SMB signing
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That was supposed to be turn off SMB signing
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