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    Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

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    by colls7914 ·

    Hi There!

    We’ve just installed a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Ed domain controller to our network and configured it as a file server. We have about 100 users. The file server is very slow in responding to requests from our users (file read/write, playing voice files, browsing for the shared files, etc…). We’ve already tuned the server like configuring the TcpAckFrequency, PagedPoolSize, etc…

    The Server Specs is as follows:
    Intel XEON 2.8Ghz
    1GB Memory
    3×146.8GB SCSI Drive configured to RAID 5

    Performance monitor indicates that there is no bottleneck in memory, processor, NIC, hard disks.

    Any ideas???

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    • #2684394

      oh boy…

      by r3d ·

      In reply to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

      I haven’t setup W2K3 yet, but here are a few things that can hose it up a bit:

      virus (duh) lol, Welchia is a pain…
      IE cache size (too big)
      spyware (try Adaware to clean)
      files are compressed
      -this kills defrag and takes time to decompress.
      chkdsk c:
      defrag (not likely)
      regclean (not much help though)
      unneeded processes running
      unneeded services running
      adjust performance for fileserver
      clients to server are ntfs to ntfs
      -conversion takes time also, but not much.
      anti virus scanning (dont change)
      check all cache settings
      make sure all profiles are below 40mb or so…
      delete temp folders
      trace route to check times, or ping
      check LAN settings in IE
      local Firewall on server OFF
      Q822219 in MSKB
      Indexing Services enabled
      this is not a DC, right? see MSKB Q321543
      etc…

      May be client problems with any of the above too.

      Good luck!

      -E

      • #2682459

        still slow…

        by colls7914 ·

        In reply to oh boy…

        BTW, this is a DC and also there’s arcserve backup software installed. Tried updating the Open File Agent but still the server is slow… The server has no internet connection… Anymore ideas?

        Thanks.

        • #3068101

          Slow Me Too!

          by johnh ·

          In reply to still slow…

          Intel SE7520AF2 motherboard SRCU42X raid controller. 36 Hours of work, investigation…

          What I found… if you are using this Raid Controller, put in 512MB ECC memory Set the card to Cache I/O, Write Back, Read Ahead. U320 SCSI 10k Barracuda drives. Best I’ve gotten…

          Buff Read 400MB
          Seq Read 148MB
          Random ” 60MB
          Buff Write 234MB
          Seq Write 73MB
          Ran Write 70MB

          When setting up controller bios specify 128K Stripe size.

          Let me know if you find soloutions, I am pulling my hair out.

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