Tim Ashman
2007-05-26 16:23:50 UTC
I've got this problem and I'm not sure if it is solved or if I'm even on the
right track, if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
I recently upgraded my groupwise 6.56 from running on a netware 5.1 box to
running on a netware 6.5sp6 box. I used the premigration method and the
groupwise is functioning but after about two weeks of server uptime the
groupwise gets extremely slow.
To give you an idea the following details what happens
My Trash folder with 4000 items : Fast - takes 5 seconds to display in the
client, Slow this takes 30 seconds to a minute.
I started reading about the differences between 5.1 and 6.5 and the new box
is indeed a much faster box so I am puzzled why this is happening, the
groupwise has ran for years with very quick speed on the old box, no new
users, etc. Nothing changed but the box and netware 6.5. So I looked and
noticed that on the new box the file system is NSS with SATA Drives, where
the old 5.1 box was traditional netware with SCSI Drives. The new box also
has 2G of ram where the old box only had 1G.
Looking further it appears that there has been issues in the past with NSS
and it being slower than traditional. I've also wondered about the
difference between my 15k SCSI drive and the slower 7200 SATA. But the
server starts out fast... Currently I have turned off every option thru
iManager except for the Backup flag for the volume. It did have
salvageable and one other option turned on. I did this change late this
week and of course since I rebooted it the server is once again fast.
However I will not know if it will last for another couple of weeks.
Does anyone have any exprience with this. I have tried the gwtune.ncf file
before changing the salvageable, etc flags this week and those tweaks did
nothing, two weeks later slow again.
Thank you for any help.
tim
right track, if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
I recently upgraded my groupwise 6.56 from running on a netware 5.1 box to
running on a netware 6.5sp6 box. I used the premigration method and the
groupwise is functioning but after about two weeks of server uptime the
groupwise gets extremely slow.
To give you an idea the following details what happens
My Trash folder with 4000 items : Fast - takes 5 seconds to display in the
client, Slow this takes 30 seconds to a minute.
I started reading about the differences between 5.1 and 6.5 and the new box
is indeed a much faster box so I am puzzled why this is happening, the
groupwise has ran for years with very quick speed on the old box, no new
users, etc. Nothing changed but the box and netware 6.5. So I looked and
noticed that on the new box the file system is NSS with SATA Drives, where
the old 5.1 box was traditional netware with SCSI Drives. The new box also
has 2G of ram where the old box only had 1G.
Looking further it appears that there has been issues in the past with NSS
and it being slower than traditional. I've also wondered about the
difference between my 15k SCSI drive and the slower 7200 SATA. But the
server starts out fast... Currently I have turned off every option thru
iManager except for the Backup flag for the volume. It did have
salvageable and one other option turned on. I did this change late this
week and of course since I rebooted it the server is once again fast.
However I will not know if it will last for another couple of weeks.
Does anyone have any exprience with this. I have tried the gwtune.ncf file
before changing the salvageable, etc flags this week and those tweaks did
nothing, two weeks later slow again.
Thank you for any help.
tim