[dba-Tech] SBS 2008 performance

I THOUGHT it was closer to Visa than to XP!  And 'pig' is an understatement!

Janet
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Janet:
>
> My friend replied but he is working a double shift... day and evening
> server
> installs so he is a little over-loaded right now but he did say:
>
> <comment>
> SBS 2008 (R1) is basically "Vista server". It can work okay, but it's a bit
> of a pig.
> </comment>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach
>  Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 6:30 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SBS 2008 performance
>
> Jim - thank you for the link for running a test.  I will be running that
> today.
>
> Mark - thank you for the 'where to start looking' basics.  I have used task
> manager many times to see what's sucking up CPU time, but nothing really
> shows up (except for that one time where Acronis backup was using over 60%!
> I've uninstalled Acronis since then).  I'll keep checking, though, and I'll
> use Process Explorer, too, to see if there's additional detail there that
> will show me something.  I'll let you know what I find.
>
> Thank you both!
>
> Janet
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Janet,
> >
> > In my experience, there are loads of tools, but you can usually get 80% -
> > 90% of the problem by checking a few basics.
> >
> > 1) 12 GB is great, so you are probably only using 2-3 gb, check this and
> if
> > it is the case, forget about SQL Server. on the other hand of something
> is
> > using 9 - 10 gb you have a suspect.
> >  (I doubt it)
> >
> > 2) Using plain old taskmgr , check what process is using most of your
> > processing power - something is.  Identify that process and kill it.
>  Does
> > your machine come back to life?
> >
> > Until these two steps are complete, I would not complicate matters, it
> will
> > be a simple problem and easy to fix, once you identify the culprit.
> >
> > I had a problem last year with McAfee AV and is was running a process
> that
> > was killing the UI, I could not kill it, but could reboot, and once it
> was
> > re-booted, it was OK.
> >
> > In summary,
> >
> > have you approx 9 GB ram free?
> > on average is 99% of CPU resources free?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > 2010/1/13 Janet Erbach <jerbach at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > We're running SBS 2008 on an HP Proliant 370 G5 with a 2.67ghz
> processor
> > > and
> > > 12gb of ram.  I'm not an expert - (Damn it Jim, I'm an Access Developer
> > not
> > > a Network Administrator!) - but I'm convinced that I need to do some
> > > serious
> > > performance tune-ups on the server.  Console response time is pokey at
> > > best,
> > > and obscenely slow more often than I'd like - when it takes 30 seconds
> > for
> > > windows explorer to load, there's got to be something going on in the
> > > background to cause it.
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me some pointers on where to start looking for
> > performance
> > > issues?  Does the built-in SBS Monitoring software need to be
> > > custom-tweaked
> > > to prevent it from negatively impact performance?  I could also use
> some
> > > guidance in how to set memory usage allocations for sqlserver 2005 (we
> > use
> > > sql for our order processing application, and SBS uses it for
> monitoring
> > > and
> > > for WSUS).
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Janet Erbach
> > > IT Administrator
> > > Natural Healthy Concepts
> > > www.naturalhealthyconcepts.com
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