Log File Alert And Negative Free Space!?

Sep 24, 2007

We've got an alert setup on our production database to warn us when the log file(s) exceeds 7 gigs. The Alert is triggering:

"The SQL Server performance counter 'Log File(s) Size (KB)' (instance 'Lexus') of object 'SQLServer:Databases' is now above the threshold of 7000000.00 (the current value is 7057656.00)."

However, according to the file system, the database properties screen files, and properties tabs, the log files combined are at under 5 gigs so this alert should not be going off.

The scary part is, when going to right-click on the database, choosing "tasks" and going to "Shrink > Files", the "Free Space" shows negative numbers for the first log file:

Log 1
Currently Allocated space: 118.69 MB
Available Free Space: -5323.24 MB (-4485%)

Log 2
Currently Allocated space: 4853.13 MB
Available Free Space: 411.20 MB (7%)

Has anybody ever run into this? Should I be worried that there is a bigger issue at hand?

Thanks!

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