disk i/o and thrashing

[Print Dude]

Hi,

I am not a windows person but I have been tasked to find out the cause
of some serious performance degradation on our Windows 2000 Print Server.

I don't know much about how all this stuff works so be gentle with me.
Our nightly processing seems to be causing a major application to slow
to the point of nothing.

After some help looking at logs and monitors, it seems like there is at
least one file or file system that is getting thrashed to pieces and I
don't know what file it is or where it is on the PC.

Question: Under W2K, is there anything I can do using standard admin
tools to monitor the filesystem to see what is getting hit the most?

 

[seth]

start with this

Chapter 30 - Examining and Tuning Disk Performance
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000Pro/reskit/part6/proch30.mspx

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like excessive paging due to low RAM.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Hi,
|
| I am not a windows person but I have been tasked to find out the cause
| of some serious performance degradation on our Windows 2000 Print Server.
|
| I don't know much about how all this stuff works so be gentle with me.
| Our nightly processing seems to be causing a major application to slow
| to the point of nothing.
|
| After some help looking at logs and monitors, it seems like there is at
| least one file or file system that is getting thrashed to pieces and I
| don't know what file it is or where it is on the PC.
|
| Question: Under W2K, is there anything I can do using standard admin
| tools to monitor the filesystem to see what is getting hit the most?

 

[Al Dykes]

Sounds like excessive paging due to low RAM.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi,
|
| I am not a windows person but I have been tasked to find out the cause
| of some serious performance degradation on our Windows 2000 Print Server.
|
| I don't know much about how all this stuff works so be gentle with me.
| Our nightly processing seems to be causing a major application to slow
| to the point of nothing.
|
| After some help looking at logs and monitors, it seems like there is at
| least one file or file system that is getting thrashed to pieces and I
| don't know what file it is or where it is on the PC.
|
| Question: Under W2K, is there anything I can do using standard admin
| tools to monitor the filesystem to see what is getting hit the most?

perfmon.exe, included in every version of NT.

Is this a stand alone machine, on an NT domain or on a more recent AD
(Active DIrectory) network?

 

[Print Dude]

2.99 Gig

 

[Print Dude]

There's alot of good stuff in there so I'll have to check it out... thanks