Perfmon reports incorrect free megabytes

[jeff]

I've set up alerting on my file server to let me know if any of the
volumes have fallen below 5000 free megabytes. Tested it by using
creatfil.exe to nearly fill a drive, and all of the alerts worked.
However, one volume, the g: drive, has reported insanely low free MB.
It's got 17.5 GB free, but I recd a couple of alerts reporting that
its down to 243MB or 4.3 GB free.

I've looked around, but can't find anything to debug the alerting
mechanism.

Thanks!

Jeff

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"jeff" wrote in message
news:193974d5-a0f6-471c-ad1f-695648ebb3c4@38g2000yqr.googlegroups.com...
> I've set up alerting on my file server to let me know if any of the
> volumes have fallen below 5000 free megabytes. Tested it by using
> creatfil.exe to nearly fill a drive, and all of the alerts worked.
> However, one volume, the g: drive, has reported insanely low free MB.
> It's got 17.5 GB free, but I recd a couple of alerts reporting that
> its down to 243MB or 4.3 GB free.
>
> I've looked around, but can't find anything to debug the alerting
> mechanism.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff

Perhaps it's checking a volume with quotas enabled.

 

[jeff]

On Sep 8, 2:53 pm, "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

> Perhaps it's checking a volume with quotas enabled.
Nope. No quotas.