Hey there folks--
I'm wondering if there's a genuine bottleneck/flaw in our network or if Win2k's performance monitor is misreporting.. I've seen articles about Network:Output Queue Length not reporting correctly, but I'd just like a "second opinion" regarding our setup..
Currently we have about 60 workstations plugged into 3-Linksys 24-port 10/100 switches. One port from each Linksys goes into a 3com 8-port 10/100/1000 switch. One port from the 3com goes to a gigabit NIC in our server.
In my mind, this makes sense. It would seem that the gigabit line from the server would be able to handle all 3 Linksys switches utilizing 100% of their respective 100mbps ports going to the 3com. And yet, our Win2k server performance monitor reports Output Queue Length at a constant 4,294,966,779. This seems incredibly unlikely and I'm pretty sure it's misreporting. Basically, I'm wondering about the logistics of our gigabit "backbone" and whether it's helping or hurting us.
Any thoughts?
thanks
-- michael~
I'm wondering if there's a genuine bottleneck/flaw in our network or if Win2k's performance monitor is misreporting.. I've seen articles about Network:Output Queue Length not reporting correctly, but I'd just like a "second opinion" regarding our setup..
Currently we have about 60 workstations plugged into 3-Linksys 24-port 10/100 switches. One port from each Linksys goes into a 3com 8-port 10/100/1000 switch. One port from the 3com goes to a gigabit NIC in our server.
In my mind, this makes sense. It would seem that the gigabit line from the server would be able to handle all 3 Linksys switches utilizing 100% of their respective 100mbps ports going to the 3com. And yet, our Win2k server performance monitor reports Output Queue Length at a constant 4,294,966,779. This seems incredibly unlikely and I'm pretty sure it's misreporting. Basically, I'm wondering about the logistics of our gigabit "backbone" and whether it's helping or hurting us.
Any thoughts?
thanks
-- michael~
