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

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Demigrator.exe I mean...

Google it and you'll see it's an issue that others have had...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 07 December 2009 19:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Windows Home Server performance - very slow..
any
> ideas?
>
> 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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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
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