kbsantosh1
Apprentice
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
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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
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