very fast machine running SBS very slowly

SBS 03 server with dual embeded Broadcomm netXtreme II 5706 Gig NIC's ,
two dual core CPU's and 2 gig RAM.

Server otten seems slow running local applications, but CPU and RAM graphs
show little use. ( I get 8 cpu graphs in task manager !!!! ; I might have
expected 4, but 8 ?)

Main issue is connections to it from a Mac are so slow as to be useless; I
see two network connections for the Broadcom, and a third used with
Appletalk. ( which I know nothing about ; 20 years of PC's , 4 hours on
Apples)

.Also had time stamps on a large directory changed last night, 1000's of
files all changed. Shadow copy doing this ?

Any thoughts on where to look for insights here would be appreciated;
haven't found much on the web on any of these issues.

 

A server isn't tuned to run local applications so it may seem slow. You
should never be using a server to do any sort of day to day work other than
being a server. Sounds like you have network issues, and Appletalk is so
1990's so ditch that fast.

Shadow copy will never change timestamps, so something is up there. Be
careful which drives you enable shadow copies on - never for boot OS or
database drives.

More info on your server's usage (how many users, etc.) and it's hard disk
setup (very important to have fast disk I/O on a server) would be helpful.

 

Al:
Thanks for the reply . Machine was set up by prior consultant, now very
gone; I'm catching up -
Drives are (from Dell paper work ) :
Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 5/1 falut tolerant backplane/ mirrored flexbay
one 73 GIG
two 36 gig SAS

How best to tell config of drives ? Windows disk mang. just shows two
drives. I assume large second one is dynamic disk, but I cant tell how RAID
is set up; how to see if RAID is there, much less RAID one or five is
operational ?

 

Russ:
Many thanks - not at client now, will try to get screen shot of 8 cpus -
it's quite a sight -



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