what queries or store procedures are being continuously fired from the NS which is loading the SQL server located off box? If the application is stopped the disk utilisation drops.Else the Avg disk Queue length is 200 to 500 ( which should be < 6 in RAID 5 environment.
Also I keep gettting a warning in Altirs console( 3-4 every second from different IPs). This says
"Tick Count: 95957515
Host Name: COCHOPNCMS
Process: w3wp (5944)
Thread ID: 10
Module: w3wp.exe
Source: Altiris.NS.EventRouter.ProcessAgentHttpPostEvent
Description: Event not processed. IP: 10.120.15.80; Error description: Altiris.NS.EventRouter+ServerBusyException: NS event queue 'D:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\NSCap\EvtQSlow' is full.
at Altiris.NS.EventRouter.Deliver(Stream input, Boolean saveBadFiles, Boolean priority)
at Altiris.NS.EventRouter.DeliverPostedDataImpl()
at Altiris.NS.EventRouter.ProcessAgentHttpPostEvent()"
Please help.