Netware 5.0 slows down with large file copy

  Turn off AntiVirus on the Novell File Server if it is running. This can kill a Novell box alone. I have seen it happen with Inoculan/InoculateIT and Norton AntiVirus for Netware.
   If this does not resolve your issue I will need to see your autoexec.ncf and startup.ncf

Is autonegotiate turned off and the speed set manualy on switch and server NIC:s?
Is spanning tree activated on the switch? If so, turn it off.

Listening..

JimBb is right that the NetWare server is setup for small sites (up to 100 users).  To overcome this and to provide better throughput the following setting are used in a company with 50000 user and 1000 file servers.  The setting should give maximum throughput.

Set Maximum Packet Receive Buffers = 500
Set Maximum Record Locks Per Connection = 2000
Set Maximum Outstanding NCP Searches = 150
Set Delay Before First Watchdog Packet = 240
Set Number Of Watchdog Packets = 5
Set Delay Between Watchdog Packets = 10
Set Maximum Directory Cache Buffers = 4000
Set Minimum Directory Cache Buffers = 1000
Set Auto Restart After Abend Delay Time = 10
Set Compression Daily Check Stop Hour = 23
Set Compression Daily Check Starting Hour = 19
Set Maximum Service Processes = 400
Set Minimum Service Processes = 100
Set Maximum Concurrent Disk Cache Writes = 4000

Hope this helps

I've ran into a similar case where I was running Norton Ghost on two machines over the network to one Netware 4.11 server (new installed on IBM Netfinity). There two ghosts managed to fill up the cache on the server (I saw the dirty cache buffers increasing). When all buffers where used the server stops accepting more data while writing to the disk...

I solved the problem bu reconfigure the RAID-controller and the disk parameters. I set the disk read after write no off and changed a RAID-controller that affected controller performance (dont't remember the exact parameter on this serverRAID-controller).

possibly the cach on the DPI card can be set to read only..check that as well and if necessarry set it to 50% read  & 50% write cache

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