Replies to post #66449 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Mattu]

Whatever it is, it's the same for all of us. Completely intermittent.

I've noticed it depends on which page you're loading.

I only get the major hangs on read_msg and board.asp

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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

When I got on an hour ago, the Intranet was going nuts. Pegged.

Just now checked utilization on the DB box and it's also been going nuts for quite a while, and I was getting timeouts.

Site running fine now and db box utilization is way down and I've started a trace. A blown-up index would explain a lot, but would be awfully coincidental.

I'm also a wee bit suspicious of the patch cable. New one.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

You might want to take a look at what's going on with that new drive in the adserv db box. Doesn't show up as a volume. Have tried setting it up both as Dynamic (default) and Basic, and it's taking a drive letter, and shows as being healthy, but you can't browse it. And nothing but the Computer Management snap-in can see it.

I suspect the BIOS can't handle the size of it. I installed CPU-Z, but it's not reporting any BIOS info, so doing a remote BIOS upgrade isn't gonna be possible.

I'll try to schedule another trip to the ISP soon to either put bigger SATA drives in the adserv frontend (and take this one to the office as a backup drive) or move this one to that box. I installed it in the db box simply for convenience. That box was a LOT easier to get at than the frontend box.