Re: SharePoint 2003 is slow

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From: Steven Collier [MVP] (steven.collier_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/24/04


Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:54:48 -0000

If it doesn't turn out to be the nic, take a look at your perfromance
counters and see what's going on. Your server should be good for thousands
of users.

-- 
Steven Collier
SharePoint Portal Server MVP
DavidV <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sounds the same as what we have been getting.  Ping
> commands look fine most of the time, but periodically, it
> will time out for up to two minutes.  It only times out
> when pinging from the affected server - other machines
> have no problem reaching this server - really weird.
> Anyway, when the timeouts happen, we see slowness in the
> apps and services, including SharePoint.  A lot of people
> have had problems with the NICs integrated into DELL
> motherboards lately.
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?
> board.id=pes_network&message.id=1556&view=by_date_ascending
> &page=1
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Ping commands work fine.  We are using Dell servers with
>> an add-in Intel Gigabit Fiber network card.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Do ping commands periodically time out?  If so, what
>>> brand and model of server are you using?  There have been
>>> issues over the last several months with integrated 3COM
>>> NICs on DELL servers.  This issue has caused the
>>> appearance of performance problems on some of our servers.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> I have noticed that SharePoint 2003 is taking a long time
>>>> to access.  It is slow when trying to access the portal
>>>> and team sites.  There are no unusual searching,indexing,
>>>> or crawling happening on the server at the time.  This is
>>>> a single server hosting 3 virtual servers (3 portals). 2
>>>> of the portal sites are not being used and are idle, the
>>>> other one is hardly used (few wusers)and has about 1 GB of
>>>> data on it.  The server is well equipped with dual 2.0 GHz
>>>> Xeon processors, 2 GB of DDR RAM, and a Gigabyte network
>>>> connection to the SQL server(4 way, server with 3.5 GB of
>>>> RAM.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> .
>>>>
>>> .
>>>
>> .


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