SBS 2008 Slow performance

[pixelkop]

Hi guys. I have a small server configured on the following specs: Intel S3420GP board, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon Quad x3440 2.53GHz and SATA 250 GB HDD Im running SBS 2008 x64 SP2. I installed SBS, the installation went well, got all the updates and everything. I then setup my NICs, Problem is that after all of this is done and I power down the server, when I switch back on after a while, my menus r unresponsive. Foor example, I will click on Start, Network Properties and instead of gettin the Netowrk properties screen, the computer just freezes. And nothing will work afterthat. Tsk Manager loads, but when u try to click anything on it, it too frezees. When I go to cmd, I can ping the router attached and the WAP.Can any1 help... Its bin 2 weeks sitting with this problem.
prasad Deshpande

 

[ShackDaddy]

I would give it more RAM. I'd say the minimum you should be running is 6gb. Since the server will page heavily to disk when it doesn't have enough RAM, and you only have a single disk available, probably a lower speed SATA, I imagine that your lack of RAM is causing a serious disk bottleneck.

Did you disable IPv6? That will cause similar problems.

You should only have one NIC enabled on the server. SBS 2008 doesn't really support more than one enabled NIC.

Dave Shackelford MVP
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com

 

[pixelkop]

added 4 Gb so now memory is 8GB disable IPV6 in network propsrties. and disable one NIC. still slow performance....please help me...i am working on this from last week.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Don't disable IPv6. That will cause hang issues and several things won't work properly.

What kinds of error events do you see in the logs after you re-enable IPv6 and restart the server?

Dave Shackelford MVP
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com

 

[pixelkop]

today i done server 2003 on the same machine working fine...installed server 2008 slow performance. so think some setting are missing or some services are taking more memory. so only 2008 version facing slow performance problem...whats u r remark ????

 

[Newells19]

First Disable the second NIC in BIOS. SBS2008 does not want to see the second NIC even if it is diabled.
Second run "Fix My Network" in the SBS console. Keep running it until it says there are no problems.
Third download and install SBS2008 Best Practice Analyzer from Microsoft's web site. Run this and correct all of your issues.
Most likely you are having DNS issues because DNS was trying to listening to both NICs.