I heard some disturbing hard drive noise from the server over the last week. I began to suspect imminent failure, but the click of doom was too intermittent and unusual sounding to indicate a hard drive failure. Just this week I began experiencing issues browsing the server using RDP. A defrag didn’t help speed things up…Windows Explorer would hourglass and take a very long while to open folders and navigate through directories. A big concern.

I checked task manager and discovered TSVNCache.exe sitting in the top 10 list…so I Googled up the process and discovered it was quite a cpu/memory hog. I ended the process right away and Windows Explorer was back to its zippy self.

I still have to perform some diagnostics on the server this weekend after a lightning strike blew the UPS up. My workstation setup is currently running on surge protectors.