mssdmn.exe slows down exchange

[choby]

I noticed now for some time a process starts and takes about an hour, while this happens it really slows down the exchange server. No Sql running on the server.

The process that takes over is mssdmn.exe.

The App log shows:

Event ID: 3019 Category: Gatherer Source: Microsoft Search
The crawl on project <ExchangeServer_SF-MAIL1 priv8A195128> has started.

Any information?

 

[jonwilliams]

That is the indexing process that Exchange uses when creating a full or incremental index of your information store. If you don't need &quot;Full-Text&quot; indexing on your Exchange server, I would recommend shutting it off. If you do, Check out

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319436

which is a HOWTO on configuring Full-Text indexing, including a section on setting system resource usage.