Re: Have we hit the wall with Sharepoint?



Hey Dave. I have the Joel Olsen PPT. Not 100% sure that I can pass it out
but if you want to ping me offline I can see what I can do.

Whoops.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032272759&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
This is the link to the webcast replay of Joel's presentation. You will
note that 100GB is their internal IT's maximum DB size. Also, I believe
they will email you the PPT.

HTH

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Shane Young
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"Dave" <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the replies everyone, we are currently running 5 front ends, an
> index/job server, and two search servers. One of front ends is not in the
> load balancing - it handles the requests from the indexer and runs backup
> jobs only. SQL is a cluster runniing on top of SAN for its disks. SQL
> itself is great, CPU (Quad) nevers runs above 50% even when doing dumps
> etc.
> The problem is isolated to the front ends for us with w3wp.exe taking up
> all
> the CPU and memory resources. We have tried more robust front ends(dual
> proc) but that hasn't helped. We have tweaked AppPool settings as well.
> We
> do have some intensive web parts (4 or 5) on our portal that render every
> page hit for every user and do stuff like go off to Oracle to get data so
> I
> am wondering if that may be the cuplrit, We are going to split up our
> database too. I will try to find that Joel Olson paper as well.
> Hopefully
> we will have this solved soon and I will get back here with what the
> problem
> was.
>
>
> "Dave" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> we have been running a large farm for about 2 years now. We use the SPS
>> portal as our homepage for all users (about 2000) and also use Team Sites
>> (WSS). Our total system size is now 225 GB which I have been told is
>> enormous for a Sharepoint installation. Recently our system has slowed
>> considerably, front end web servers run at 100% CPU for most of the day
>> and
>> adding additonal load balanced front end servers has done little to help.
>> Response time is poor. We still have one database collection since we
>> are no
>> where the limit to split off # of sites wise. In fact we only have about
>> 30
>> WSS sites. Our SQL is a cluster and its performance has been great
>> throughout.
>>
>> Has anyone had experience with large installations and noticed a severe
>> downgrade in performance once they hit a certain size? Any ideas on
>> tweaking
>> performance? We have read Microsoft's whitepaper outlining their
>> settings
>> but there is nothing in there that has caused any improvement for us -
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/infowork/spsperfnote.mspx#EEAA.
>> We are also up to date on Service Packs. Sharepoint was great up until
>> we
>> approached 200G in size.


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