Users have been seeing some e-mail slow down and RPC cancel request dialog box on their Outlook 2003 clients. In order to see if the Exchange 2003 Server is having problems I changed to the mdbperfx.dll (in Performance Monitor). This added a number of new counters which I am unable to find any detailed information about. A few that I am using are listed below.
FXGetBufferRopsCalledPerSec
FXGetBufferRopsDeniedPerSec
FXGetBufferCurrentCallerCount
FXGetBufferCurrentUsersExecting
FXGetBufferRopsCalled
I am seeing a lot of activity on the FXGetbufferRopsCalledPerSec and a little on FXgetBufferCurrentUsersExecting and nothing on FXGetBufferRopsDeniedPerSec. I have the one line discription of these counters from KB Article 818481 but need more.
This is a large Exchange 2003 system with a few thousnad users runing clients with Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003. I have been following the guidelines in KB Articles 839862, 916783, 9015184 and a few more to troubleshoot the problem.
FXGetBufferRopsDenied sits at about 775. I am not sure how to reset this value or where it is comming form. I would think I should see some activity on the FXGetBufferDeniedPerSec counter if RPC handling was the problem.
Any information would be helpfull.
Thanks,
Are you seeing this across all servers?
Any reason you picked those particular counters? They certainly are not counters I would have selected for looking at this problem.
If you use the more conventional counters (such as those listed in the performance monitoring guides) are the servers within the thresholds?
Simon.