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Constant disk activity on NT Server sp6a

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by domtyler 1 view

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Hi, I have a new Compaq ML350 with 2 scsi hdd's. It came with one and I installed the second myself. I then created a mirror-set of the two.
This machine is our Proxy server, and runs fine, web-browsing is quick and reading files from it is normal, however, both disks are constantly hammering themselves, even at 6:30 when most people have gone home for the night and there are maybe 2-3 users browsing.
Does anybody have any ideas why this is?
It doesn't seem to be effecting performance, buti'd liike to know why as I have never seen it before and don't know how to find out what is causing it.

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by dukebytes

Are you doing software RAID with NT or is it a hardware RAID controller from Compaq? That could be a cause for something like that to happen. If is it hardware RAID make sure you have the latest drivers for the controller for NT. It might also bethe swap file. Because it is located on the system drive - it could be doing a little "thrashing" with the server. Make sure that you have the swap file start size and ending size set to the same amount. If you let NT use the variable sizing withthe swap file it will fragment on you and run all the time.

Do you have the proxy set to cache web sites that are visited during the day? It might be out there browsing while your sleeping? :)

Good luck,
Duke

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