Slow browsing within folders

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Hello Everybody,

 

I am facing a rather strange situation. I have setup an enviroment with a

couple of servers one of which is acting as a file server. It is an HP

DL-380G4 with RAID5 and Windows Server 2003 R2.

 

The symptom is that even on the server console (since it is happening on the

clients too) when you try to browse from one folder to another, sometimes

there is a noticable delay. The symptom exists on the clients side too (Win

XP Pro SP2) more often along with a long delay when they try to save, even a

small word document.

 

This server used to act as a DC, DNS, DHCP but after many tries to find out

what is going on, finally I've removed these roles to another server in

order to reduce the load. But unfortunately the problem still exists.

 

The only role the server has right now, exept from the FS role, is that it

has the Symantec System Center consoel for the Antivirus.

 

I had enable folder Quotas but I've removed them hopping that would solve

the problem. No luck!

 

The server has two NIC's in a team and most of the folders storing the data

are quite big (10 - 80GB).

 

Any ideas or anyone have face anything similar?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Andreas

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Re: Slow browsing within folders

 

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> Hello Everybody,

>

> I am facing a rather strange situation. I have setup an enviroment

> with a couple of servers one of which is acting as a file server. It

> is an HP DL-380G4 with RAID5 and Windows Server 2003 R2.

>

> The symptom is that even on the server console (since it is happening

> on the clients too) when you try to browse from one folder to another,

> sometimes there is a noticable delay. The symptom exists on the

> clients side too (Win XP Pro SP2) more often along with a long delay

> when they try to save, even a small word document.

>

> This server used to act as a DC, DNS, DHCP but after many tries to

> find out what is going on, finally I've removed these roles to another

> server in order to reduce the load. But unfortunately the problem

> still exists.

>

> The only role the server has right now, exept from the FS role, is

> that it has the Symantec System Center consoel for the Antivirus.

>

> I had enable folder Quotas but I've removed them hopping that would

> solve the problem. No luck!

>

> The server has two NIC's in a team and most of the folders storing the

> data are quite big (10 - 80GB).

>

> Any ideas or anyone have face anything similar?

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Andreas

>

[Guest Anteaus]

RE: Slow browsing within folders

 

 

Recently replaced an NT server with 2003 R2 (albeit on somewhat faster

hardware) and was pleasantly surprised with the speed at which it indexed the

140,000-file document store (about 2-4sec over the network) I get the

impression it would have been faster than NT even without the hardware

upgrade. So, no you've got a problem here, it shouldn't be sluggish.

 

Putting the AD on a server is a definite performance hit, but shouldn't

bring it to a crawl. Main impact seems to be very slow startup/shutdown

compared to a vanilla server.

 

One possibe reason here is that the disk controller isn't using DMA. That

makes things very slow, AND loads-down the processor during disk activity.

I'd have a look at the controller's properties in Device Manager.

 

"msnews.microsoft.com" wrote:

> Hello Everybody,

>

> I am facing a rather strange situation. I have setup an enviroment with a

> couple of servers one of which is acting as a file server. It is an HP

> DL-380G4 with RAID5 and Windows Server 2003 R2.

>

> The symptom is that even on the server console (since it is happening on the

> clients too) when you try to browse from one folder to another, sometimes

> there is a noticable delay. The symptom exists on the clients side too (Win

> XP Pro SP2) more often along with a long delay when they try to save, even a

> small word document.

>

> This server used to act as a DC, DNS, DHCP but after many tries to find out

> what is going on, finally I've removed these roles to another server in

> order to reduce the load. But unfortunately the problem still exists.

>

> The only role the server has right now, exept from the FS role, is that it

> has the Symantec System Center consoel for the Antivirus.

>

> I had enable folder Quotas but I've removed them hopping that would solve

> the problem. No luck!

>

> The server has two NIC's in a team and most of the folders storing the data

> are quite big (10 - 80GB).

>

> Any ideas or anyone have face anything similar?

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Andreas

>

>

>

>