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Is there any tool (may be Open Manage ??) or something... which will check and report that these wierd things of RAID is working properly or needs fix ? I have some plain ascii text files which are used for lookup in the dos applications which are kept in the server shared directory.... does this lookup effect the performance ? as it has to read through the ascii file in seuential access ? I also have images (70-80k) which is fetched from the shared directory for every line of ascii text keyed in. With the kind of hardware the asci writes are very very meagre... but the reading of index files (flat files) and fetching of images.. could be some clues ??? Can I configure the SBS 2003 to make the Index files be cached at the user pc.. so that the index lookup happens at the user pc instead of the Server ? What are the other ways I can bring down the Pages per Sec and Average Disk Queue ? Any help is appreciated. Thanx. - Santy Balan

This is an AD and has WINS/DNS and other general services running on it. Point to note is it servers not more than 30 users at a time... and the CPU (double Xeon 4 GB RAM) usage is never more than 10%. I am troubled by the Pages Per Sec and Average Disk Queue (RAID 5 trouble ?). Before migrating to this current configuration, we had an old PowerEdge 1400 with 256 RAM and a single SCSI 12 GB. Users felt much better at the old server.. than with this Dell Monster 2800 4 GB Ram, 270 GB RAID 5. The applications that the users are using is very simple 16 bit DOS program, which reads/writes plain text/ascii files to the server shared directory. It also reads Images from the server (70 k per image) Why is the Paging / Disk Queue so high ? What can I do to analyze this and fix it ? Calling Dell does not help.

Hello Everybody, I have a Windows SBS 2003, which is primarily used as a file server. Shared folders with plain ascii text files are accessed by users to read and write through a DOS 16 bit application. Users also use the shared folder to view "images" in the DOS application. My challenge is (a) The Page/Sec is peaking to 100% every 10 seconds and the result is erratic performance - delays experienced by user. (B) The disk queue also peaks to 70-100% once in 10 seconds. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with 4 GB RAM and a Raid 5 System. Approx 30-50 users connect to the Server at a time. The primary is a PDC for the domain. All possible services are stopped on this server and DNS, WINS etc is load balanced to a secondary server. Any help to improve the performance of the server will be sincerely appreciated. Please let me know if I can offer any more stats to diagonize this further. Thanks. - Santy Balan san.rely@gmail.com ==================================================================================================== =============== Here are few statistics of the Server :- TOtal Memory : 4 GIG Raid 5 C Drive : 12 GB {paging file : 2 - 2 GB} D Drve : 240 GB {paging file : 8 - 20 GB} Acting as File Server for shared folders. Accessed by 30-50 users to read/write text files into the shared fodler. Pages per sec... peaks to 100% about every 10 seconds Average Disk Queue peaks to 70-80% about every 10 seconds Process Stats % of User Time = 5-10% % of Processor Time = 100% % of Privileged Time = 100% Memory Available Bytes = 100% Free System Page Table Entries = 100% Commit Limit = 100% Page Reads = Spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Page writes < 5% Transition faults/sec = spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Physical Disk Average Disk Queue = Spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Paging File % of paying file usage < 1 % constant Commit Charge (K) Total : 2490632 Limit : 14409488 Peak : 2544516 Physical Memory (K) Total : 4193360 Available : 1663572 System Cache : 1854808 Kernel Memory (K) Total : 124652 Paged : 73828 NonPaged : 50824 Totals : Handles : 25707 Threads : 1090 Processes : 74 CPU Usage = 2% Commit Charge : 2431M/14071M PF Usage : 2.37 GB

Hello Everybody, I have a Windows SBS 2003, which is primarily used as a file server. Shared folders with plain ascii text files are accessed by users to read and write through a DOS 16 bit application. Users also use the shared folder to view "images" in the DOS application. My challenge is (a) The Page/Sec is peaking to 100% every 10 seconds and the result is erratic performance - delays experienced by user. (B) The disk queue also peaks to 70-100% once in 10 seconds. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2800 with 4 GB RAM and a Raid 5 System. Approx 30-50 users connect to the Server at a time. The primary is a PDC for the domain. All possible services are stopped on this server and DNS, WINS etc is load balanced to a secondary server. Any help to improve the performance of the server will be sincerely appreciated. Please let me know if I can offer any more stats to diagonize this further. Thanks. - Santy Balan san.rely@gmail.com ===================================================================== Here are few statistics of the Server :- TOtal Memory : 4 GIG Raid 5 C Drive : 12 GB {paging file : 2 - 2 GB} D Drve : 240 GB {paging file : 8 - 20 GB} Acting as File Server for shared folders. Accessed by 30-50 users to read/write text files into the shared fodler. Pages per sec... peaks to 100% about every 10 seconds Average Disk Queue peaks to 70-80% about every 10 seconds Process Stats % of User Time = 5-10% % of Processor Time = 100% % of Privileged Time = 100% Memory Available Bytes = 100% Free System Page Table Entries = 100% Commit Limit = 100% Page Reads = Spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Page writes < 5% Transition faults/sec = spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Physical Disk Average Disk Queue = Spikes in 10 sec upto 100% Paging File % of paying file usage < 1 % constant Commit Charge (K) Total : 2490632 Limit : 14409488 Peak : 2544516 Physical Memory (K) Total : 4193360 Available : 1663572 System Cache : 1854808 Kernel Memory (K) Total : 124652 Paged : 73828 NonPaged : 50824 Totals : Handles : 25707 Threads : 1090 Processes : 74 CPU Usage = 2% Commit Charge : 2431M/14071M PF Usage : 2.37 GB