Server Performance Issues

[Guest J Weldin]

We have several Windows 2003 Standard Servers (file servers, Lotus Notes

server, SQL servers) attached to a Dell SAN. We have been experiencing

performance issues, so we started investigating. We discovered that the

systems are doing excessive hits to the page file, so we increased the RAM

to 4 GB on each server. Despite making the necessary changes to have the OS

recognize and use the addition RAM, we are still having the same issues. And

the page file is still being excessively accessed.

 

We have performed disk defrags on the servers. After the defrag completes,

we can relaunch the defrag analyzer and see that it needs to be defragged

again.

 

Can you recommend some other areas to search?

 

Has anyone experienced the same with a Dell SAN?

 

Thanks,

 

jweldin@radicalsupport.com

[Guest net_admin]

RE: Server Performance Issues

 

Normally one can get good tips from the site below.

 

http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm

 

--

NetAdmin <São Paulo, BR>

"Das ist nicht mein bier... arschloch."

[Guest Coraleigh Miller]

Re: Server Performance Issues

 

Hi J Weldin,

 

Check that your SQL server isnt set to use the max amount of memory

available, SQL can unneccessarily be a huge hog.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321363

 

Coraleigh Miller

 

 

"J Weldin" <jweldin@radicalsupport.com> wrote in message

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> We have several Windows 2003 Standard Servers (file servers, Lotus Notes

> server, SQL servers) attached to a Dell SAN. We have been experiencing

> performance issues, so we started investigating. We discovered that the

> systems are doing excessive hits to the page file, so we increased the RAM

> to 4 GB on each server. Despite making the necessary changes to have the

> OS recognize and use the addition RAM, we are still having the same

> issues. And the page file is still being excessively accessed.

>

> We have performed disk defrags on the servers. After the defrag completes,

> we can relaunch the defrag analyzer and see that it needs to be defragged

> again.

>

> Can you recommend some other areas to search?

>

> Has anyone experienced the same with a Dell SAN?

>

> Thanks,

>

> jweldin@radicalsupport.com

>