Terminal Server 2003 - Extermely Slow Logons After Server Reboot -Help!

[Guest daranolan@eircom.net]

Hello,

 

I have a really strange problem. I have a HP Server with 4 Dual Core

CPU's, 8GB's Ram and fast 15k SCSI Hard Drives, its running Windows

2003 Enterprise Edition with all service packs and updates. This

server runs our main business applications for about 40 users. If I

have to reboot the server during working hours, when it comes back up

and the users start to logon it runs at a snails pace, I have a login

scrpt that copies files to the users folders which usually takes about

10sec to run normally but after a reboot takes upto 15mins! All in all

it can take take 30mins for the server to settle down after

restarting. If I havent done a reboot and get all users to log off and

back on again the logins run fine. I have run task manager when they

are logging in to see if something is hogging ram or maxing cpu -

everything looks ok, cpu usage is only a few percent. The server also

runs SQL 2000 but after a restart that is onlt taking about 100mbs of

ram. This has only started in the last few months and I am at my wits

end to figure out why this is happening.

 

I was wondering is anyone had seen this or has any advice for a fix,

its driving me and the users nuts!

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

DNolan.

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 - Extermely Slow Logons After Server Reboot- Help!

 

Re: Terminal Server 2003 - Extermely Slow Logons After Server Reboot- Help!

 

The first question I would ask is what has changed since this has

started? If you wait a half hour without users logging in your saying

it works like normal correct? has anti-virus changed? is it scanning

at startup? Have you checked to see what programs are running at

startup to see if anything has been added or changed?

 

Jeff Pitsch

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daranolan@eircom.net wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I have a really strange problem. I have a HP Server with 4 Dual Core

> CPU's, 8GB's Ram and fast 15k SCSI Hard Drives, its running Windows

> 2003 Enterprise Edition with all service packs and updates. This

> server runs our main business applications for about 40 users. If I

> have to reboot the server during working hours, when it comes back up

> and the users start to logon it runs at a snails pace, I have a login

> scrpt that copies files to the users folders which usually takes about

> 10sec to run normally but after a reboot takes upto 15mins! All in all

> it can take take 30mins for the server to settle down after

> restarting. If I havent done a reboot and get all users to log off and

> back on again the logins run fine. I have run task manager when they

> are logging in to see if something is hogging ram or maxing cpu -

> everything looks ok, cpu usage is only a few percent. The server also

> runs SQL 2000 but after a restart that is onlt taking about 100mbs of

> ram. This has only started in the last few months and I am at my wits

> end to figure out why this is happening.

>

> I was wondering is anyone had seen this or has any advice for a fix,

> its driving me and the users nuts!

>

> Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

>

> DNolan.

[Guest DNolan]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 - Extermely Slow Logons After Server Reboot- Help!

 

Re: Terminal Server 2003 - Extermely Slow Logons After Server Reboot- Help!

 

Hi Jeff,

 

Thanks for the reply. Nothing has changed on the server - bar running

Windows Updates regularly. If I restart the server out of hours

everything is fine the next morning when users login. Whats driving me

crazy is that I sit and watch task manager like a hawk to see if I can

catch a process hogging memory or CPU and there is nothing doing this.

The login script that copies files to the users folders usually runs

in about 15secs with the list of files flying through, when we have

the login problem each file takes 1-2 seconds!?

 

Other than this problem the server is working fine...its so strange.

 

Thanks,

 

DNolan.