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I have a sql server with a pictures table with 25 million entries and it has become too slow to query. currently have a xeon E5-2667v3 with 32g of ram [duplicate]
I have a sql server with a pictures table with 25 million entries and it has become too slow to query i currently have a Xeon E5-2667v3 with 32g of ram, I am looking to get a hp ProLiant Gen 9 and I ...
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Windows Server Command Line for Remotly Measure Data Disk IOPS,CPU,RAM Monitoring
I want to measure data usage like IOPS, CPU, RAM ,Capacity ,Bandwidth ETC from Remote Server.
I Know, that it is possible to measure it localy with the Typeperf Command.
However, again, i want to ...
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Performance of Dedicated vs Virtual Server
I have an application that's running in both dedicated and virtual server environments (all Windows Server 2008 R2). Given nearly identical specifications of the servers (memory, processors), the ...
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File Server performance with simultaneous read/write operation
I have a WORKGROUP network with 50+ devices, all the computers can access a Windows Server 2008 R2 server which hosts all the media in the network. When one or some of the users are copying files from ...
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Will thousands of folders slow IIS or the OS its on
We have an IIS-7 server on Windows 2008. A custom web app writes files that clients upload to an NTFS partition. Each year we have between between 40,000-60,000 folders with 2-20 files in each. ...
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svchost suddenly overloading CPU on many servers
it seems that on many servers (w2k8 and w2k12) in our environment suddenly svchost hosting Dhcp, EventLog, lmhosts, Wcmsvc services started to use 1 CPU core by 100%. Sometimes it is also WmiPrvSe. It ...
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Diagnosing slow data processing on a VM
We're trying to diagnose a VM apparently running slowly, from inside the VM.
The situation:
We have an IIS-hosted application on Windows Server 2008R2 running on a 6-core, 12GB virtual machine.
We ...
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What will happen to a server when it overloads the request limit?
I was searching about the capacity of a web server in terms of how it can handle heavy traffic of server request, http request, even database queries or whatever you call them. I understand that a web ...
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IIS hanging when running Active Reports, possibly splwow64.exe
We have a Windows 2008 R2 web server running our web app on IIS and when running a particular page which generates a PDF (using Active Reports https://activereports.grapecity.com/) it takes between 1 ...
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How do I interpret a very high Avg. Disk sec/Write perfmon value?
Short version: Is the perfmon screenshot shown below enough evidence to say "something is wrong with your storage system"?
Long version: I am debugging a performance problem: Some SQL Server query is ...
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Performance issue HYPER-V : VM shows very high CPU use, but the Physical machine shows very small CPU use
My Hyper-V VM(Server2008R2, SP1) shows very high (almost 100%) CPU use when fully under heavy load (6cores from total physical 8cores, 25Gb RAM from total 32GB) - used as TS, Picture TOP right corner
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Long Apache Wait times
Thanks for reading my question.
I've been having a strange problem with Apache 2.4 on my dedicated Windows Server 2008 machine (8 gigs of RAM, Intel Xeon E3-1220 3.1GHz, 1 gig link). For some reason ...
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Child process runs in normal priority only. Why? [closed]
I run a scheduled task in Windows Server 2008 R2. I used the technique described here
to set its priority to high priority (level 1 of 7).
My task runs a process (an EXE file) that creates child ...
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Logging detailed network activity on Windows Server 2008
One of my clients is experiencing internet delays and outages within their small network. They've verified with their cable company that the issue is not related to any cable company outages. The ...
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Performance and Microsoft Security Essentials Real Time Protection on Server 2008
Is it smart to turn off real time protection for Microsoft Security Essentials on Server 2008? Will this help with performance? I have it running a scan every night.
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Using all host resources for a single Windows VM (KVM) - how to improve performance
We're using KVM/qemu on Ubuntu 12.04 to spawn a Windows 2008 R2 VM that uses a lot of host resources (all CPU cores, 4GB RAM). It seems that during a Windows boot that Windows allocates all its ...
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How Long Should Data Collection Sets run in Windows Server Performance Montioring
I currently have an application server and a database server both running on Windows Server 2008 R2. I have been tasked with generating a weekly report on the utilization of CPU, Memory and Disk. I am ...
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Windows Server 2008: "not genuine" - performance impact?
Is it possible that not activating a copy of Windows Server 2008 might have a performance impact, specifically over TCP?
Background:
I've been provided with a Windows Server 2008 Oracle VM. It ...
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VMware Performance Monitor: How does aggregation work for VM Processor\% Processor Time
I'm monitoring a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 VM running on vSphere 5.1 for CPU bottlenecks.
I'm using Performance Monitor and configured a few counters. Two of which are Processor\% Processor Time and ...
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App slow on Server 2008 r2 but fast on Windows 7
I have an app that runs fast on windows 7, but when I host it on windows server 2008 r2, it's much slower. I've turned power power options to 'Hi Performance' and set optimization to programs rather ...
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SQL Server Hardware Config
i am an IT Consultant and take up projects for my clients for setting up complete IT infrastructure. I have a client who has been facing problem with their DATABASE, he is a retail distributor for ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 running PHP poor performance
At work we have a Windows Server 2008 R2 setup as webserver.
We have IIS installed and with the Web Platform Installer we have installed PHP.
The problem now is, the performance of the server is ...
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What tools can I use to measure Active Directory response time to queries?
Windows Server 2008 / Active Directory
Is there a way to measure the response time for queries going to AD? I have an application that checks to see if a user exists in AD and lately, this seems to ...
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How fast can a Windows 2008 CIFS client write to SAMBA server using 10Gb NIC?
We are experiencing a performance problem using Windows 2008 CIFS client. We have a FreeNAS server that delivers 1.3GB/s on ZFS write. We have 10Gb network connecting NAS server and CIFS clients. ...
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Measuring network latency
I want to measure performance of the network, especially latency. We are performing stress tests of a system that sends live audio / video data over the network. When there are multiple simultaneous ...
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Hyper-V and CPU Usage
I'm renting VPS that I believe is using Hyper-V. Lately the processor performance of my VPS has been terrible, yet the CPU usage in the task manager doesn't show it struggling. Is the CPU usage in the ...
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How to customize Windows "Performance Monitor"?
I'm wondering if that's possible to set a customized action counter that is not listed as one of the counters? e.g. a batch script that measure a time for running my application, and then notify the ...
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How to Check Download/Upload Speed to Web Server?
I have a web server in the US (MS Windows 2008).
Chinese users are complaining of slow speeds and SQL command timeouts. Other Asian and European users are not.How do I check the speed (download/upload)...
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Setting up perfmon across various servers
I set up some performance gathering in Performance Monitor (perfmon) on a particular server. (I setup a Data Collector Set for the server, with specific Data Collectors, setup start and stop condition,...
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What App Pool configuration do you recommend for this?
I have a website which does convertion of pdfs to word docs. My server is 8GB Quad-Core Opteron.
A conversion can take between 1 seconds for a small pdf file (eg 35kb) to 60 seconds (for pdf files of ...
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Troubleshooting server performance with a hosted server?
We are in a tough spot, we have a hosted server with the following specs:
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 64bit
Processor: Intel Xeon X7550 @ 2GHz (8 processors)
RAM: 16GB
The file system ...
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Windows 2008 R2 IIS 7.5 very poor performance
I have very strange issue with Windows server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 installed on server with cpu with 24 cores and 24 GB ram.
The problem is that with apache benchmark tool I can't force the IIS to ...
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RDMA architecture - do you need adapters on both ends?
I know Linux can use RDMA NICs like Solarflare... I just found Intel has something like that NetEffect cards. But Intel is talking all about clusters..
Can someone please explain. If I want low-...
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Unable to increase the dynamic port range on Windows Server 2008
I'm trying to "tune" the TCP/IP stack on some Windows Server 2008 machines by following the instructions here: http://www.outsystems.com/NetworkForums/ViewTopic.aspx?TopicId=6956&Topic=How-to-tune-...
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Very active database with high % disk times
I have a very active website which is using a NoSql database (RavenDb). I don't have exact figures as i'm not quite sure how to extract this information (any help would be great!)
But looking in ...
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How can detect the count of page fault on windows OS? [closed]
How can detect the count of page fault on windows 2008 or windows 7?
in the next process is it possible detect the best RAM for system (system is dedicated server on the web)?
thanks a lot
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Server performance problems every 12 hours after reboot
I am using a Windows VPS with Windows Web Server 2008 R2. The server is running IIS and MSSQL Server 2008 R2.
Every 12 hours I have performance issues on this server. This occurs every 12 hours after ...
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How can I save the counters’ setup in windows performance monitor
I need a comprehensive and complex set of performance counters in windows performance monitor.
At this point every time that I use performance monitor, I have to add the counters, one by one. Is there ...
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Looking for an open source and better alternative for windows performance monitor [closed]
Is there any open source and better alternative for windows performance monitor?
Thank you,
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Disk warning 51 on Windows 2008 x64 Standard R1
I keep getting a disk warning 51 message in the system log every few months. It eventually causes the server to crash (killing all my network services), forcing me to do a hard reboot.
Full error (...
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Performance of Citrix XenApp 6.0 vs just Windows 2008 R2 RDP
Did anyone notice any performance gain while using Remote Desktop via Citrix XenApp 6.0 vs just plain Terminal Services on Windows 2008 Server R2?
I understand that Citrix offers a lot of great ...
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Server freeze (Disk I/O possibly)
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine that is resyncing disks after a powerloss. The issue is that the system becomes unresponsive after about 10 minutes. We've checked with resource monitor and found ...
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What Logman Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-File trace provider flags should I use to monitor file IOPS/MBps
I'm trying to analyse the load on my server down to the file level, so I can move the most active files to their own disk spindles.
I tried:
logman start 001 -p Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-File 0x10 ...
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How Windows choose what network adapter to use when redundant adapters are available?
I have a following configuration: two Windows Server 2008 non-virtual machines (a database server and an application server) are connected to the same network through two network adapters, a fast one (...
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Windows Performance Monitor keeps trying to add unwanted counters
I have been running a Data Collector Set for SQL Server for a week, and everything was going just fine until I tried clicking on Action -> Save Current View and now it always tries to add the ...
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Would rebooting the server in a schedule be good idea for performance?
I am wondering if rebooting a server in a schedule would be good idea for performance.
Let's say we want to reboot the server at 02:00 AM per 2 nights.
The server here is Windows Server 2008 R2. ...
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Windows Server 2008 File Server Performance Tuning
I am running a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 File Server on our network. It seems that there are many times where accessing the data from the server is really slow, sluggish, or non-responsive. ...
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Following migration (Server 2003 to 2008), File Services is SLOW; any idea why?
Okay - the run-down:
INITIAL INSTALL
Brought a new Dell rack-mount server up, running Server 2008 Standard x64.
All Windows updates, File Services role added; everything completed without issue. ...
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Inducing artificial network latency in Hyper-V
I want to do some testing on how will system performance degrade with various changes in network throughput and latency. I am using Hyper-V for virtualization.
Is there a way I can artificially limit ...
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Server Configuration
Recently we have got problems with performance in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise.
One idea to solve it is to scale up, i.e. improve hardware of the server.
SQL Server 2008 has 2 instances that are ...
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