Server Performance Issues

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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
 
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
>
 
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