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Chris LeFebvre · Guest

I'm working on switching to a new mail server (Server2003, MDaemon
8.1.3, Compaq DL580, 1GB, quad 900MHz Xeon cpus) from our old one (NT4,
Exchange 5.5 on a Compaq 400MHZ PII Proliant) and I've got all the
software installed (latest SP's for Server2003, latest software drivers
from HP/Compaq for the system hardware Raid/lan/video) everything
installed on the DL580 but for some reason I can't pin down the server
seems very sluggish. It seems slow to logon and bring up the desktop,
slow to run any applications (I realize that as a server background
processes have priority but it's more than that), slow to copy data to
and from any shared drives on other servers.

As far as I can see there are no errors or warnings in either the
system or application logs and task manager shows cpu usage averages
5%-10% on cpu 1 (most of which seems to be the taskmgr program but I do
see the mdaemon service use a couple percent now and then), 10% on cpu 2
and cpu's 3 and 4 are pretty much flat most of the time, network
utilization is 0% since this is not really in service yet.

Can anyone make a suggestion or two about things to take a look at?

Thanks,

- Chris LeFebvre

RunningWolf · Guest

Is it possible that your anti-virus software is causing some of the slowness
on the server? Maybe some folders need to be excluded from being scanned.
Microsoft has some suggestions in the following article for Exchange 2003.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823166

Chris LeFebvre · Guest

Thanks for the info, of course anything is possible but I'm not really
seeing any constant high utilization numbers from the memory resident portion of
the anti-virus software (NOD32). I tested by disabling the active scanning
module and there was no apparent difference in the sluggishness of the server.

Any other area's that I should look at?

- Chris LeFebvre

iainmcdonald · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 1

Hey chris,

i suggest you get a tool like the sysinternals.com processexplorer tool & check out whats running on the box. Process explorer is a cool tool that shows what is loaded, the dependencies & whats taking loads of memory.

if you can't work it out, feel free to post a the result out here.

/iain

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