Slooow network copy

[sladd]

I'm copying a 50gb database from a 2k server to a 2003 server. Both machines have a gigabit card at full duplex. I put a cat5e crossover cable between the 2 machines. I mapped a drive from one server to the other. The copy takes 7 hours..

Any idea how long this should take? I was guessing 2 hours. Would it help to have a Cat6 cable. Know of any utitilities that would help determine of it the bottleneck is network or I/O?

 

[Skykiller]

what kind of busses are the nics on?

PCI buss will not go up to 1gb

Josh Williams

 

[sladd]

Turned out to be misconfigured switch.