[WinMac] Slow NT
Michael Curtis(bazmail[at]bazmac.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:54:00 +0200
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas regarding my slow NT 4, sp3
and the hot fix. It is a HP Netserver LS with 64m of RAM. It is running a
45gig Raidtech raid off a fast and wide Adaptec scsi card. It is only used
as a Mac server.
For the past few weeks it has been freezing our Mac's. We get the
network arrows staying on in the top left corner. They then disappear and
it is ok for a while. I have checked the toe auto-start virus and we don't
have it.
The 45 gig raid is split into 4 partitions. Two of them have less
the 100m each left on them. I looked on Technet and it recommended doing a
chkdsk /f /r, but I was told not to do it on volumes that were very full.
I copied a 70m folder from a Mac running 100mb form the server and
it took 3m 30s. There was very little network traffic on the network at
this point. With a cross over cable straight to the server it took 2m 30s.
I then decided to make new folders up and move the files from the
shares to the new folders and then re-share them. This made the copying
time over the network the same as the cross over cable time. It also made
the shares available to the Mac's so much quicker after a restart. We are
talking minutes.
My main worry is that my boot partition is only 500m. This was set
when I had NT3.51. Does anyone think this may be where the problem lies?
What size should this partition be. It has about 180m free on it. Although
we seem to have fixed it, I would like to stop it happening again :-))
Any comment would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance.
Michael.
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