Windows 2008 Server very slow performance
Hi,
I have a Dell PowerEdge T110, Windows Server 2008 R2, Intel Xeon X3440 2.5 GHz 8 MB Cache, 16 GB 1333MHz,PERC S100, RAID1, 2 x 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA
We're running Quickbooks V12 and have up to 7 users connect to it using Remote Desktop. When there's one or two users connected to the server, it consistently hangs in Quickbooks, Word, Adobe Acrobat and pretty much everywhere. Physical memory usage doesn't seem to be a problem as it runs around 40% usage. I've scanned it for malware, viruses and rootkits but not a trace anywhere. I installed Defraggler because it has this little hard drive benchmark utility that I like to use to gauge the performance of a hard drive. It was running random read tests at 1.5 Mb/s which seemed a little slow to me. After a full defragment, it was running at 2.5 Mb/s, which still seems like it should be faster. I'm not sure what else to try or how to diagnose this issue. Please let me know if I've left out any information that might help. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations?
Thanks!
I have a Dell PowerEdge T110, Windows Server 2008 R2, Intel Xeon X3440 2.5 GHz 8 MB Cache, 16 GB 1333MHz,PERC S100, RAID1, 2 x 250GB 7.2K RPM SATA
We're running Quickbooks V12 and have up to 7 users connect to it using Remote Desktop. When there's one or two users connected to the server, it consistently hangs in Quickbooks, Word, Adobe Acrobat and pretty much everywhere. Physical memory usage doesn't seem to be a problem as it runs around 40% usage. I've scanned it for malware, viruses and rootkits but not a trace anywhere. I installed Defraggler because it has this little hard drive benchmark utility that I like to use to gauge the performance of a hard drive. It was running random read tests at 1.5 Mb/s which seemed a little slow to me. After a full defragment, it was running at 2.5 Mb/s, which still seems like it should be faster. I'm not sure what else to try or how to diagnose this issue. Please let me know if I've left out any information that might help. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations?
Thanks!
Thomas Zucker-Scharff
How is the drive (s) set up? If there is partitioning that may cause some problems. I used Paragon's partition manager for servers to repartition a production server (worked like a charm). I believe the product is now called something like Drive Manager Suite.
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Use some third party temporary file cleaning and registry cleaning utilities. I think would solve the problem. Also clean chkdsked file of generated and clean it.
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Thank you dlethe and Jeff Perry for your feedback and recommendations. I was thinking that was possibly the case. The drives are only 2.5 years old but the more I work with SATA drives in a server environment, the more I come to realize that a server environment is no place for SATA drives. I will only use SAS drives in servers in the future. This is the second server this year that I've had strange issues with after only a few years. I will be replacing the drives with SAS drives and install a better RAID controller.