RE: Windows Home Server performance - very slow.. any ideas?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check task manager for what's taking up CPU time when it does that -
you may
well find that it's hitting something called "Demingrator.exe"
... if it is
then it seems that some hardware combinations are prone to Demigrator
taking
a hell of a toll whereas other hardware (which may be far less powerful)
doesn't seem so affected.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of keyvan2r
> Sent: 07 December 2009 18:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Windows Home Server performance - very slow.. any
> ideas?
>
> Hi All
>
> I moved my DVDs and Blu-rays from my old Buffalo 3.5Tb NAS box to a
> self-build WHS box. I am using a fairly high performance MB (ASUS),
cpu
> (E4600) with 6gb of ram. I have currently 4 hd's connected via the MB
> sata ports. these consist of 2xWD 1.5tb and 2x Hitachi 2Tb drives.
This
> shows up as 6.37tb with 3.15tb free after I copied my movies &
music.
> I am getting really really sluggish performance from this setup.
> I know (think)its all related to physical disk I/O. The performance is
> so bad that it virtually makes it useless for streaming DVD or blu-ray
> movies. In fact on most occasions it takes the best part of 1 to 2
> minutes to either run WHS console or RDP into the server. Sometimes it
> times out...Also opening things like explorer or even double clicking
> shortcuts takes ages to respond.
> When running the performance monitor (from server admin tools) it
looks
> like when any of the shares are being accessed by client pc's all
> physical disk activity indicators go to full / 100% usaged. The cpu
> load remains ok (between 3% to 20%) but all indicators such as:
> current disk queue length
> avg disk queue length
> avg disk write queue length
> avg disk read queue length
> These all go to 100% or full usage every 2 or 3 seconds during any
form
> of disk access.
> Is this normal?? If so then it seems WHS is not that good for large
> disk managment. I am sure this can not be the case.
> Is there any way I can improve disk performance. Is there anywhere
were
> settings can be altered to sort this problem?
> Is there anyone else with this issue with similar type of HD capacity?
> I have looked on a few forums for WHS and no joy so far.
> Any help, advice, or even pointing to a good resource to research this
> issue would be most appreciated.
> If I can not resolve this I will have to scrap the WHS solution and
> look at alternatives which work like unRAID or other disk-server
> solutions - that would be a real pain..!!
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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