WDS 3.0 B3 - KB 917013

[scottrudy]

Has anyone noticed an extremely ridiculous index size with WDS 3.0? I looked
at my hard drive and noticed I only have 8Gb left on a 40 Gb drive. It turns
out my index files are taking up 14.1 Gb of that space, which means I am only
able to use about half of my drive! There are no media files on my drive and
very few documents (My Documents is only 55Mb). My PST files total about 1 Gb
in size and are not compressed. I do have an external USB Drive that is 80Gb,
but I don't know if WDS is trying to index it or not. Given there is no UI
for WDS can anyone point me to how I can reduce the space being used by WDS
via registry or script?

Thanks,

Scott

P.S. Here is more info if needed:
OS : Windows XP MCE 2005 upgraded from 2004 to keep credential caching
Installed Windows Components: IIS, SMTP, MSMQ (All servces start manually)
Patch Set: All patches up to date as of 7/12/2006
User Profiles : One Admin User and one Media Center Extender user
Office : 2005 B2 (OneNote on Quick Launch Startup)
Outlook Profiles : One Exchange over HTTPS profile

Other Installed Programs:
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 (Adobe Reader Speed Launch on Startup)
Cisco VPN 4.6 (userlogon on Startup)
CA E-Trust 7.1 w/latest signature as of 7/12/2006
Daemon Tools 3.47
IBM Personal Communications 4.3
Intervideo WinDVD 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard w/SP1 (all services start manually)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express w/SP1 (all services start manually)
Microsoft SourceSafe 2005
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with kb917452 patch
Paint.NET 2.63
QuickTime 7.1 (Quick start disabled)
RealPlayer 8.0 (Start Center disabled)
Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect 6.1
TextPad 4.7.3
Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (starts manually)
Windows Media Connect
Windows Media Encoder 9
Yahoo Messenger 7.0 Beta (starts manually)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Currenty I've got 4.294.756.620 items indexed (don't ask, I'm just as
surprised as you are) and the edb-file is less than 400MB. The total Search
folder is less than 1GB.

In Control Panel-> Indexing Options you can control what is being indexed.

For more support it is better that you take this to a WDS newsgroup.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Has anyone noticed an extremely ridiculous index size with WDS 3.0? I looked
at my hard drive and noticed I only have 8Gb left on a 40 Gb drive. It turns
out my index files are taking up 14.1 Gb of that space, which means I am
only
able to use about half of my drive! There are no media files on my drive and
very few documents (My Documents is only 55Mb). My PST files total about 1
Gb
in size and are not compressed. I do have an external USB Drive that is
80Gb,
but I don't know if WDS is trying to index it or not. Given there is no UI
for WDS can anyone point me to how I can reduce the space being used by WDS
via registry or script?

Thanks,

Scott

P.S. Here is more info if needed:
OS : Windows XP MCE 2005 upgraded from 2004 to keep credential caching
Installed Windows Components: IIS, SMTP, MSMQ (All servces start manually)
Patch Set: All patches up to date as of 7/12/2006
User Profiles : One Admin User and one Media Center Extender user
Office : 2005 B2 (OneNote on Quick Launch Startup)
Outlook Profiles : One Exchange over HTTPS profile

Other Installed Programs:
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 (Adobe Reader Speed Launch on Startup)
Cisco VPN 4.6 (userlogon on Startup)
CA E-Trust 7.1 w/latest signature as of 7/12/2006
Daemon Tools 3.47
IBM Personal Communications 4.3
Intervideo WinDVD 4
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard w/SP1 (all services start manually)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express w/SP1 (all services start manually)
Microsoft SourceSafe 2005
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with kb917452 patch
Paint.NET 2.63
QuickTime 7.1 (Quick start disabled)
RealPlayer 8.0 (Start Center disabled)
Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect 6.1
TextPad 4.7.3
Windows Live Messenger 8.0 (starts manually)
Windows Media Connect
Windows Media Encoder 9
Yahoo Messenger 7.0 Beta (starts manually)