[Internal Operating System Error]

I would leave Procmon running a capture and then analyze that once it crashes.

[File Transfer Help]

This just gets stranger and stranger....

After messing around for a few hours with services I have found the following:

Logged onto the desktop locally if i transfer from the vista desktop to the server - all ok

However if i log onto the server locally and UNC to the desktop and copy the file that way i get the problem i described in the first post!? Now what on earth is going on here?!

UPDATE:

I have just replaced the NICS in a client and the server and had them back to back but the same thing happens. So its 100% not the hardware.

UPDATE 2:

After realising that the problem lies with UNC'ing from the server back to the client and performing a transfer i have also tested UNC'ing from server1 back to server2.

When i do this and begin a file transfer the same thing happens. (if i run over to server2 and bring up taskmgr i can see the mem usage creeping up until it uses all physical memory).

I am not happy at all with this behaviour Has anyone ever seen it? Should i file a bug report with MS? or would anyone care to test it out to prove that its not just me?

Thanks

[File Transfer Help]

I have just tested transferring the same file from a server 2008 machine to a server 2008 machine and its is fine. It appears that caching of the file does not occur on server 2008 but it does on vista.

My first thought was suprefetch so i have enabled that on one of the server 2008 boxes but it makes no difference to the memory usage. (however interestingly the transfer speeds increased with the service enabled, but thats not the point here).

So now what do i do? What is the difference between server 2008 and vista that is causing this problem?

Thanks

[File Transfer Help]

Thanks Tripredacus!, Although you had a slightly different issue there it still gives me some avenues to explore. I am going to do some testing later on and il let you know how it goes

[File Transfer Help]

Hi everyone,

I have a few vista desktops and a server 2008 machine. All are x64 and running at 1Gbps.

When i transfer a 20gb file from any of the Clients to the sever i notice that the Ram usage increases as the transfer goes on. AFAIK this is vista caching the file for performance, but it soon eats up all of the ram on the machine (all 8GB on one machine!) and then the client is unresponisve until the file transfer is complete.

However this does NOT happen when transferring the same 20GB file from Server to Client.

Has anyone experienced this? Can anyone offer a solution?

Thanks for your time

[Multi Hop Network]

This sounds very ambitious.... why cant you replace laptop2 with a repeater? That seems to be what you are trying to achieve.

[Can't use MSG command over VPN]

The 2 Routers will have (probably) a web interface. Connect up to them over HTTP and enable logging if it isnt already and then send a message and watch the logs for clues

[Can't use MSG command over VPN]

Sounds like the the routers are dropping the packets, im guessing they are UDP. Check the logs on either side and see what is logged when you send a message and you will find out whats going.

[Wsus 3 on Server 2008 constantly downloading?]

Thanks for that Cluberti, thats good to know. I have never heard of limelight networks before now

[Wsus 3 on Server 2008 constantly downloading?]

Hmm the free space is decreasing so i guess it is still downloading updates. I'l give it some time then post an update on here.

Thanks for the help

EDIT: I Failed to notice the huge part on the main page of the wsus console that says "download status". It has quite a way to go yet. Its been so long since i setup a wsus server, I believe it was a sus or a wus server last time i did this, I forgot after synchronisation you have to download the files.

[Wsus 3 on Server 2008 constantly downloading?]

Thanks for the reply, yeah I just selected english and specific packages. I only selected to download what we need.

The thing is it doesnt say "synchronising in progress" and give the percentage like it did on the first synchronisation just nothing yet its downloading

[Wsus 3 on Server 2008 constantly downloading?]

Hi everyone,

I have server 2008 with WSUS 3.0 installed. I have performed an initial synchronization and as far as i can tell there is nothing left to synchronize. However I can see that the network is still being utilised, If i run tcpview i can see a connection to cds122.sea9.llnw.net

which seems very strange. However if i run procmon i can see that files are being written to inside the WSUSContent folder.

Can anyone help me work out what this is please?

P.S its pretty much a clean install, it has been running less than a week

Thanks

[Can't access \\target\c$]

have you tried turning off simple file sharing?

[Boot Windows 7 from VHD - an amazing concept]

Yes i would imagine a performance hit is to be expected with this as it works by using a driver that understands the NTFS filesystem and VHD format, it will locate the VHD file on the physical NTFS volume then open that up, and boot windows reading its the NTFS structure from the VHD file.

[Pings faster then 1/s?]

Yes you are quite right about the interval, I thought the guy wanted a response time quicker than 1ms but I guess he was reffering to more than 1 ping per sec.

Thanks

[Pings faster then 1/s?]

You cannot "get" a faster ping. A ping is the time it takes for a packet of data to get from your pc, to the destination interface and back. Ping statistics are at the mercy of the ever changing traffic across the internet. You can have a reasonably consistent response time, but there are too many factors involved.

FYI I highly doubt that anything that claims to "increase your ping" has any effect whatsoever.

[Are onboard network adapters crap?]

I love it in those reviews where people say "my ping dropped because of this card"

$299 for a PCI NIC is ridiculous

[Vista X64...........Worth Moving To?]

Oh my god.........A hot mcdonalds burger.... I laughed so hard i fell off my chair when i read that part.

[Windows Internals 5th Edition Release Date]

oh no that sucks but thank you for letting me know Fizban

[Block all chatting software mIRC, MSN, Yahoo, etc]

3 quick suggestions of the top of my head:

1) you can use path restriction policies through group policy to block messaging software (but there are a lot)

2) You can block all ports on the firewall except those you specify

3) Run users as standard users, therefore preventing them from installing any messaging software

Thanks

[Windows Internals 5th Edition Release Date]

Hey everyone,

Iv pre-ordered this book from amazon.co.uk (being in the uk) and it says it will be delivered 7th-8th Jan. However on amazon.com it says its released on 4th Feb!

Does anyone know which one is correct?

Thanks

[[Project] Self infecting secondary PC]

One really good thing you could do with this would be to run processmonitor and then get a virus/malware and watch what reg keys/files are added/changed.

Then when you remove the infection you can see how effective the removal has been

[Very Slow (Everything) Server 2008 Ent 64-bit]

Do what Cluberti said, as this gets worse over time monitoring is the only way you are going to find any trends / patterns in resource usage and allocation.

[Really wierd Internet Loss]

Line tests dont take 5 days! unless its because its the xmas period?

[Task manager - resource meter]

What he could have meant is the terminology used.

For example "Mem usage" under XP is not actually the memory usage of that process. If you are looking for the amount of memory a process is consuming you would infact use the "VM size" column. There is a lot of that type of thing (Especially XP and Lower) were the names shown and the names used under the hood are different.