Re: Slow Excel saving on SBS

Changed the hub by a 1000Mbit switch yesterday.
All problems have disappeared !!

Thanks for all tips !

"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:%23JKh586WIHA.4740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I agree, change to a proper switch and see what happens.

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Claus
"Herman" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uWu3zE6WIHA.4476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Claus, you are right.
I have already ordered a Linksys Gigabit switch. This week we have planned to replace the hub. It was just temporary ...

On the server we have a mirrored SATA disk of 2*160GB
Plus an external USB drive Freecom 160Gb as a backup device.
As backup software we are using Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (Image Backup).
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition was installed, but as a test I removed it. No difference ...

Word file of 6MB is also slow. Although network transfers are ok.

Strange is that before with the old linux server and the same hub and cabling the issue was not there.

I think we first have to replace the hub by a modern switch before we can go further ...



"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:%23IbT7k3WIHA.5132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If this is really a hub and not a switch I would change that out. It's a $40 investment if you stay on 100 and $80 if you go to 1000. Hubs send packets through ALL ports where switches send them only to the designated port. This will make a huge difference.

What kind of drives are on the server?
What software is running on the server?
What time are you looking at if you open a 2-4 MB Word file?

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Claus
"Herman" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eru5Jr1WIHA.748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Did somebody knows a solution for this ?

Small network 2003SBS (Xeon/2GB/160G raid1) + 6 PC's
PC's are XP Pro, logged on to the domain.
Network traffic is rather slow (100Mb and hub instead of switch) but it's ok (copy 135MB in 60 sec - 2.3kByte/s).
No DNS problems. Everything works normal. Nothing special in the event logs.
Antivirus Symantec Corporate Edition disabled to be sure.

Only problem : Opening Excel files on the SBS share is slow, saving is very slow.

Examples :
file of 50kB : +/- 3 seconds
file of 1.5MB : opening 10 sec and saving 35 sec

When opening the files locally on the PC's : no delay !

Before they had a Linux (Mandrake) server with the same PC's, hubs and cabling and this problem was not there.

Seems w2003SBS is checking something in the excel files and times out ...

Thanks for reactions !







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