Re: Slow server response - Plese help!

Is that even with the /PAE switch in the Boot.ini file?

MS Says SBS Standard 2003 can support up to 16 GB Ram with the /PAE but not
ot use the /3GB?


"Cris Hanna" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Windows Server Standard which is what SBS is based on) can only use a MAX
of 4 GB of RAM, so take the rest out
Page file should also be 4 GB.

Pull the extra ram, adjust the pagefile if necessary and see if things
don't improve.

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"L. DeFoor" <ldefoor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am curious on one thing and not exactly sure.

I have a Dell Poweredge 1850 (actually two of them).

I physically have 16 GIG of ram installed in one of them.

When I right mouse on My Computer and go to Properties, it shows 4.00 GB
of Ram..

Recently, the servers have starting going so slow it is unbelievable!

I am wondering two things:

1. With the amount of Ram in my server wouldn't the system properties
show more than 4 GB
2. Can someone recommend some performance monitors to be looking at
specifically to help determine the slowness, RAM, DISK I/O and/or Page
Faults?

My configuration is:

I have two servers: 1 is a Small Business Server 2003 with approx 10 GB
of Ram. It is running exchange and sharepoint services. It is primarily
my Exchange and a Data Server.
#2 is a Terminal Server that has about 40 users on it running the
Accounting package Creative Solutions CS Suite, Microsoft Office.

The Accounting package I am told uses .Net. When installed, I pointed
the database to the exchange server as the data location.
The programs are installed on the Terminal Server.

I also have about two or three MSDE databases running on the exchange
server.

If I look in the perfmon on the Terminal Server, I see about 8 SQL
databases for Microsoft Small Business Accounting. Not sure this is what
should be there, but it installed all of them.

I would like to attempt to see where the slowness is in my system, if it
is programs or hardware.

ANY advice would be appreciated as I don't know much about PerfMon.




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