High utilization on NW3.12 server

[jeffkelly]

I just upgraded our NW3.12 server from a P3-500 w/128 MB to a P4-2.8 w/512 ECC. The old hard drives were 9 gig and the new hard drives are 80 gigs. There are three volumes on the server that were extended to 25-35 gigs each. The sys volume is 500 MB. The short term memory was increased to 32 MB.

The old server typically has 50 open connections w/ roughly 175 open files. It rarely hits 90% utilization. The new server hits 90+% utilization any time files are copied. Additionally, when copying files several work stations lose their network connection to the server. I've also noticed that the server console is frozen and the HDD light is on solid while files are being copied.

Does anyone know why the faster machine is running slower than the original machine and why the utilization is so high when copying files? Are there additional parameters I should change? Thanks.

 

[spi200]

Hi

Just a thought....
Netware requires more ram to Mount the new larger Disk drives than the old small ones, but I am not sure if 512 is enough, but I would think that the % cache has been reduced. This is dispayed in monitor and 60%+ are good numbers after all NLM's are loaded. ie. 20% to 40% low and 60% to 80% is fine, but the higher the better.
There may well be other issue's, but I thought I would throw this in, as I have seen people caught before.

Regards

David CNE

 

[jeffkelly]

Thanks for the reply. My total server memory is 535,122,872

Here's what I have:
Original cache buffers: 126,659
Total cache buffers: 117,819
Packet receive buffers: 100 (although set to a max of 1000)
Directory cache buffers: 35
Permanent memory pool: 987,500 - 0% w/ 989,940 in use.
Alloc memory pool: 20,011,212 - 4% 12,815,824 is in use.
Cache buffers: 497,646,336 - 93%
Cache movable memory: 14,707,968 - 3%
Cache non-movable memory: 1,769,856 - 0%

Do these look correct or does something need adjusting?
Thanks.