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I have 75% free space, when I click on the defragment goes till3% and stays
there forever - never finishes like 24 hours... What can I do?
Thanks,mj
 
mj said:
I have 75% free space, when I click on the defragment goes till3% and stays
there forever - never finishes like 24 hours... What can I do?
Thanks,mj
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And your defragging app is ... ?
 
It's a DB - SQL server 2000.I tried to run chkdisk /f - doesn't let me - the
system is busy...
Thanks,mj
 
What you can do is provide more hdw/sftw facts, then wait for
suggestions. Your post do not work.
I have 75% free space, when I click on the defragment goes till3% and stays
there forever - never finishes like 24 hours... What can I do?
Thanks,mj


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No need to be rude...here is the info:
Win 2003 server, SQL server 2000 SP4,
2 CPUs, 20G ram.
C boot drive - 27G, ntfs 26 drives by 33g.
The SQL server is accessed by app on another box.
Please, let me know if you need more info.
Thanks,mj
 
Very odd on the face of it.
- What defragger are you using? The one supplied with Win is not the
best. On the other hand, it's cheapest.
- 75% free? Really free? No empty space locked by some app process?
- Is pagefile somewhere else?
- Assuming no messages in any logs...?
- Any funny behavior on that machine? Any special reason, like
slowdown, that you decided to defrag?
- Have you run this defragger successfully before on this machine?
This exact configuration?
- Is the drive light active (on or blinking) after you hit the 3%
barrier?
- Are you able to take this machine offline for test/diagnose?
- Were you defragging while the server was active?
No need to be rude...here is the info:
Win 2003 server, SQL server 2000 SP4,
2 CPUs, 20G ram.
C boot drive - 27G, ntfs 26 drives by 33g.
The SQL server is accessed by app on another box.
Please, let me know if you need more info.
Thanks,mj

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Thanks a lot for your response.
I'm allow to use only the native Win defrag -you guess - it's free. I still
do not have approval to buy Diskeeper.
This is test SQL server and the usual use is to create database file and
populate them with the app. For the next test we truncate all tables and
repopulate them again. For this reason I periodically check for fragmentation
and, of course it is bad...
As you guess, there's no errors in the even log. No funny things except that
the paging file grows pretty fast to 20GB... but you know when you test app
how crazy could go.
I use to defrag the macine every month at least 1 to 2time depend on the
testing.
As long as I can see there's no usage of the free space reported by the
defrag utility, but when I try chkdisk /f it tells me it's busy... how can I
trace this?
The drive light is on when I start the defragging. It immediately goes to 3%
- no wait for second. The machine was not busy at all, I stopped the SQL
server and everything I saw running - still the same result.
I can take the machine down at any time if no testing is running.
Thanks a lot again.
mj
 
For starters a chkdsk c: /f is a very good idea. (Assuming C: is the
drive in question.)

Chkdsk /f can NEVER be executed on the W2k system/boot partition while
W2k is running. The message you are getting is absolutely normal. The
fully operational system will never allow itself to be exposed to
modifications such as might be commanded by chkdsk /f. The risk of self
destruction is intolerable.

You must issue the chkdsk /f command, get that "Can't do it - do you
want to chkdsk at next boot?" message, and answer "YES." Then shut down
and reboot. During the boot process, before the full W2k is running,
chkdsk will be invoked and will scan and repair the partition. This will
happen on a black screen.

It would be a good idea to run chkdsk with no parameters first, and look
carefully at the displayed results (do this from a command prompt
window, not START/RUN, so the results stay visible. That way you'll see
whether chkdsk finds errors, but chkdsk won't try to repair them. If
chkdsk finds a great many errors, you may get a hint that the problem is
not quite what you might have expected. Worth a try.

If this path leads nowhere, you might try a call to MS or the defragger
people. Isn't it a giveaway version of DisKeeper? Don't know whether
anybody provides support of any kind....
Thanks a lot for your response.
I'm allow to use only the native Win defrag -you guess - it's free. I still
do not have approval to buy Diskeeper.
This is test SQL server and the usual use is to create database file and
populate them with the app. For the next test we truncate all tables and
repopulate them again. For this reason I periodically check for fragmentation
and, of course it is bad...
As you guess, there's no errors in the even log. No funny things except that
the paging file grows pretty fast to 20GB... but you know when you test app
how crazy could go.
I use to defrag the macine every month at least 1 to 2time depend on the
testing.
As long as I can see there's no usage of the free space reported by the
defrag utility, but when I try chkdisk /f it tells me it's busy... how can I
trace this?
The drive light is on when I start the defragging. It immediately goes to 3%
- no wait for second. The machine was not busy at all, I stopped the SQL
server and everything I saw running - still the same result.
I can take the machine down at any time if no testing is running.
Thanks a lot again.
mj
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