I just wanted everyone to know that we have solved our issue. Thank-you everyone for all of your suggestions. We now have a very finely tuned exchange server because of this. The solution was related to redundant nics in our Compaq 1850R. The primary nic was plugged into a Linkbuilder Switch that was also connected to 2 other floors. This created bandwidth contention for the exchange server with about 100 other workstations. Our secondary Nic was plugged into a brand new 3com 3300XL (100mps switch - which I thought was active), however it was not active. I pulled the primary cable out from the linkbuilder - the nics failed over to the secondary and the speed issue was fixed. There server is now 10X faster, no word of a lie. I have since connect both primary and secondary to fast 100mbps ports.
Thank-you all again. Let this be a lesson - especially for me! HA Regards, Shawn -----Original Message----- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown How long did/have you been AV-disabled ? -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Norton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 18:54 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown What OS are the clients running? -----Original Message----- From: Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown I have disable my Nav for Exchange and still made no difference. Good thought. Cheers Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Terry Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown Are you running any type of Virus Checking Groupware? -----Original Message----- From: Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown I am hoping someone out there is having some of the same issues as we are having and have come up with some solutions. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Our current setup is; - Single Server Exchange Server Enterprise 5.5 Sp4 running OWA - Compaq Server Dual PII 450 Xeon Processors - 5 hard drives - 3 10,000rpm 36.4 GB drives in RAID 5 (Databases) - 2 10,000rpm 9.1 GB drives in RAID 1 (Transaction Logs) - Server is running at 100mbps full duplex. - Pub.edb = 150mb - Priv.edb 18.5 GB (approx 40GB of free space) - Circular Logging Turned off - Differential Arcserve Backup enabled - 200 - 230 Users and 300 mailboxes Description For the past couple of weeks we have notice a perceptible slowdown in client side response times on our exchange server. The slowdown mainly happens at peak times,(9-10am and 2-3pm) however we have noticed it with attachments and at other times as well. It sometimes can take 5-8 seconds to open an e-mail with an attachment where we have been getting immediate response before. For scrolling through messages in Outlook we have also noticed a slow down. Also - when copying an attachment from an e-mail to your local machine,(right click and copy, then paste to desktop) this response time has decrease dramatically. Although these slowdowns do not stop us from working on a daily basis we would like to get on top of this issue and do what we need to do to keep our Exchange server speedy. Any ideas or recommendations are appreciated. Regards, _________________ Shawn M. Leblanc, Network Technician BULL, HOUSSER & TUPPER Vancouver, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bht.com Tel: (604) 687-6575 or Direct # 641-4919 Fax: (604) 641-4949 or Direct # 646-2500 Pager: (604) 650-4155 This e-mail may be privileged or confidential. Any use of this e-mail by an unintended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please call me immediately. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
