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Server to server data transfer is very slow

Hell all
Hava a performance issue on two servers:
Both are identical setups:

Server 2003 SP1, Dual Processors, 4gB ram. Dual NIC cards but one is dissabled and the enabled is set to 100 Full.

Problem is file transfers between the two are very slow but file transfers to other machines are fine. This is a remote office with 5 pc's and 4 printers. It was first identified this was happening when the backups began to fail. Like I said earlier the setups are identical.

Was liiking at both and noticed the paging file on one is at 1.5 GB where as the other is at 441MB.

Any suggestions on what to look for?

Thanks

Brugh

First off, the page file should be set to 1.5x the amount of Physical Ram, just as a general rule of thumb.
That could be the root of your issues, but i doubt it.

Are your servers acting as Application or Data storage servers that take on a lot network traffic? this could also be causing the issues.

-brugh

wgilbert

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they are both file and print servers. One is primary other is backup. Data storage only.

JohnDemerjian

I had a client with this same problem just a few weeks ago. the problem was initially caused by incorrect attempts at teaming the nics. this introduced some kind of corruption into the bindings and/or client services on the nics. go to the properties of the nics in question and see if they are all listing the same stuff (like Client for MS networks, TCP/IP, etc.) We fixed this problem when we found we need to add a service/client that wasn't listed there, added it and reinitialzed the nic.

wgilbert

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the NIC's were teamed till last week on both servers but canot confirm if the problm started or changed at that point.

I checked the NIC settings are they are identical to servers in other locations.

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wgilbert

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The Fix was to set the NICS to auto config (speed). Thanks for the suggestions.