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Windows 2000 Advanced Server Slowdown Daily

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by ted

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Our server slows down every day almost to a standstill about 4PM-6PM - Employees do not log off their machines. It appears to be a file optimization or file cache problem... or is there some software that is on the server causing this activity.

Here is a list of what we have...

10 users pc - xp pro
1 server - windows 2000 small business server
1gb ram, 1400mhz p3, raid 5, 32gb drives x3, symantec enterprise anti-virus edition that servers the other pc's, and sql server ver. 8.00.194

We have been troubleshooting this for about 1 year, and have never found a solution.

I have tried replacement of keyboard, mouse, updates for server, network card to a pci 10/100, (would a gigabit ethernet card help?), and memory optimization programs - nothing seems to work. We need a bit of help.

Thanks!

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by bizzo

See if you have any scheduled tasks running at that time.
Backups?
AV updates?
Replication/Synchronising?
Are auto updates turned off for your other applications? e.g. Adobe can check daily/weekly etc for updates, and if your server has no internet access it may slow the server down for a while trying to connect?
Have you checked the event logs for application errors or for success/failure audits during that time?
Try running performance monitor to see if there's a lot of disk or network activity during that time.
Does it happen every day, or just weekdays?

by ted

I think that the application error log is filling up with problems. i am looking at that now. thank you for the reply.

we have syncronizing, but that runs in the morning, and the slow down appears to be in the evening about 5pm. the av updates could also be a problem, but we had never used norton before, and the problem existed before that. I am going to try the application log events, and see what is up with that.

thanks! :-)

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