Thanks for your response. I was thinking this is what I would have to do. I was hoping there was some other way.

Why would Microsoft have a setting to...

Steve,

We defrag all volumes quarterly as well.

I appreciate your taking the time for advice.

Jason

Thanks for the suggestion. I am also looking at adding 2 servers to the environment to help with disk access, as you mentioned. I just want to be sure I...

I have an instance that has developed the exact same symptoms described here. No open transactions. I can manually truncate the tempdb log, but this thing is in simple mode....