Re: Perfmon reports incorrect free megabytes

"jeff" wrote in message news:193974d5-a0f6-471c-ad1f-695648ebb3c4@38g2000yqr.googlegroups.com... > I've set up alerting on...
Re: Perfmon reports incorrect free megabytes

"jeff" <> wrote in message
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> 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.

We will be happy to hear your thoughts

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