performing search /find on Win2K impacts perfomance ?

[sebjenkins]

Hi,

We have a HP NetServer running Windows 2000 Server.

We are in a cross platform enviroment with both Macs and Windows PCs connecting to shares on this server.

For the last 12 months there are people who are adamant that when someone performs a search/Find from their machine on the shares they are connected to, its has an impact on performance which is noticed by other users connected to the server at the time.
When I say an impact on performance, I mean the users say that the server 'goes all slow'.
Now whenever the server 'goes all slow' they quickly blame it on the possibility of someone doing a search.

Is it possible for a search peformed on network shares to slow it down for the others users conencted to them ?

 

[Stiddy]

I guess, but I would think that the user whom is searching pc CPU cycles would used more that the servers. I know that the indexing service is suppose to speed things up as far as finding files. Try enabling the indexing service on the server. If it is enabled already, try to disable it and see if your users notice a difference.

 

[sebjenkins]

I found the following solution has resolved our problems:

To disable the feature called CatSearch with a registry edit

the registry location is this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\MacFile\Parameters\Volumes.


Select the volume on which you want to disable CatSearch, and then select Multi String from the Edit menu.
Add "DisableCatsearch=1" without the quotes.
Exit the registry editor, and then stop and restart Services for Macintosh

 

[nerdzilla]

I'd also make sure I was defragmenting the volumes regularly. And ensure their is the neccessary free space. Those are two very good ways to boost performance, defrag'ing is an oldie but goodie and can often cause major performance increases.