Slow Server

[Dale Friesen]

My NetWare 5.0 server has gotten really, really slow, even though the
utilization number is staying small. When I look at NetWare Volume
Statistics I see that the Used Space is listed as a negative number,
which seems possibly related.

I tried repairing the volume, but it didn't make a difference.

Any advice?

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Dale Friesen, Sysadmin
Bolen Books, Inc Victoria, BC Canada
ro...@bolen.bc.ca http://www.bolen.bc.ca

[Dale Friesen]

[Erik Klausen]

dfri...@amtsgi.bc.ca (Dale Friesen) wrote in
news:1125752701.51dfbe46c1a10012a9d2fc0889009156@teranews:

> My NetWare 5.0 server has gotten really, really slow, even though the
> utilization number is staying small. When I look at NetWare Volume
> Statistics I see that the Used Space is listed as a negative number,
> which seems possibly related.
>
> I tried repairing the volume, but it didn't make a difference.
>
> Any advice?

Check if the volume is running full. And check if you are running out of
memory; the Total Cache Buffers should be about 50% of Original Cache
Buffers. Dirty Cache Buffers should be at 0 most of the time, as should
Current Disk Requests.

HTH,
Erik Klausen

[Dale Friesen]

Erik Klausen <e...@host.domain> wrote:

Thanks!

The volume is less than half full. Total Cache Buffers is about 70% of
Original Cache Buffers. Dirty Cache Buffers is usually under 30, but
rarely at 0. Current Disk Requests is consistently at 0. Utilization is
almost always under 10%, and is often at 0%.

I'll get some more memory. What harm, eh?

[Dale Friesen]

Erik Klausen <e...@host.domain> wrote:

Thanks!

The volume is less than half full. Total Cache Buffers is about 70% of
Original Cache Buffers. Dirty Cache Buffers is usually under 30, but
rarely at 0. Current Disk Requests is consistently at 0. Utilization is
almost always under 10%, and is often at 0%.

I'll get some more memory. What harm, eh?

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[Klaus]

Dale Friesen wrote:

Hi,

- What do you mean by slow ?
- Why do you that your server is slow and not your network ?
- What is the exact action you are running like copy a file from or to
server, printing.... ?
- Did you ever use a cross over cable with a client directly connected
to the server running the same process which seems to be slow ?

Klaus

[Dale Friesen]

Klaus <kwg...@arcor.de> wrote:

> - What do you mean by slow ?
> - Why do you that your server is slow and not your network ?
> - What is the exact action you are running like copy a file from or to
> server, printing.... ?
> - Did you ever use a cross over cable with a client directly connected
> to the server running the same process which seems to be slow ?

I solved it, thanks. :) The directory containing the app in question was
being filled with thousands of empty files because of a bug in
somebody's code.

[Phil M.]

e...@host.domain wrote:

I'm having a similar issue. Browsing the users folder on the SYS volume
becomes extremely slow. At one point the users folder disappeared, which
is a little frightening. At that point I downed the server. This process
normally takes 1 or 2 minutes, but this time it took about 15 to 20
minutes before everything was shut down and I could start it up again.
It came up fine and things started working normally for a while. A few
hours later, things started slowing to a crawl again.

From system monitor:

SYS 68400 MB capacity 80% full
VOL1 69984 MB capacity 75% full
Utilization: 0%
Server up time: 0:06:29:24
Online processors: 1
Original cache buffers: 589,213
Total cache buffers: 485,248
Dirty cache buffers: 0

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Phil M.