The server did not have enough memory. Instead of caching NTFS metafile data in memory every file access required multiple disk reads. As usual, the issue is obvious once you see it. Let me share what clouded my perspective: The server showed 2 GB memory available both in Task Manager and RamMap. So either Windows … Read more
If you’re talking about a disk that doesn’t contain a Windows installation, just use the “TAKEOWN” and “ICACLS” utilities: TAKEOWN /f “X:\” /r /d y ICACLS “X:\” /reset /T Then you can reset the ACLs to whatever you want. If it’s a disk with a Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003 operating system installed (don’t … Read more
These flags control the inheritance of ACLs. There are other flags, too– IO and NP. You can see more about them in the article I link below. In short, access control entries (ACEs) flagged only with “Object Inheritance” apply that ACE to files in a folder, but not subfolders within that folder. ACEs flagged only … Read more
a way to deploy ASP.NET code with as little site disturbance as possible. It seems like this objective and your proposed solution are not aligned, because you now have a bunch of extra work or scripts involved for every deployment. One thing I have seen is to install an svn client on the production server, … Read more
The easiest solution, as PowerShell support for file operations is still rather lacking, is to create a PowerShell script to call the compact.exe utility and set it up as a scheduled task. Because of the space in the path name, you want to call compact.exe directly, instead of using Invoke-WMIMethod and the CIM_DataFile class (which … Read more
As Evan already gave a general answer, I like to address two of your sub-questions: Does IIS flushes logs every X minutes? http.sys, the kernel mode part of IIS is responsible for logging and it buffers the data in memory before writing it to the log files. I’m not certain but I don’t think it … Read more
WatchDISK does exactly that — shows directory sizes over time. WatchDISK’s big brother, PA Storage Monitor does that plus more (besides tracking just directory sizes, it can tell you who the largest storage users are, where the MP3s are, etc).
For straight up Enterprise systems, there is an additional layer in the form of the storage adapter (almost always a RAID card) on which yet another layer of cache exists. There is a lot of abstraction in the storage stack these days, and I went into deep detail in this in a blog series I … Read more
Right, UAC is triggered when a program requests administrator privileges. Such as Explorer, requesting administrator privileges, because that’s what the NTFS ACLs on those files and folders require. You have four options I’m aware of. Disable UAC on your servers. I do this anyway (in the general case), and would argue that if you need … Read more
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 But be careful, some program (especially backup programs) might need this.