DL580 G2 and Windows Server 2003

[Caster Troy]

Dear All,
Here is something interesting, I have a number of DL580 G2 Servers running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, these are the terminal servers and users connect via remote desktop connection over the LAN using Thin Clients t5700. 2 or 3 times a day the performance of servers becomes pathetic, no performance counter related to RAM, NIC or Hard Disk shows a bottleneck and there are only few users logged in even then the server displays "server cannot accept new connections" error and no new connections are formed. Moreover on the console the server responses extremely slow, e.g it takes about 1min to display the Task Manager and over there the cpu usage and all other counters are normal. Can any of u pros suggest anything that can be checked.

[ANITH PRABHAKAR .C]

hi
Try to upload the latest security patches
what about your page file what is the size and where it is located
how much is the RAM installed in the server

once i had also faced the same problem but that was the problem due to the HDD and page file .
i changed the system partion HDD and configured the page file in separate partition and given the full permission to user "system" for that partition

anith

[Caster Troy]

Hi Anith,
The servers are running with 8GB RAM, cant say if the extra 4GB is doing any good as in 32bit OS there is limitation for 4GB to be addressed at same time. The page file is on the same partition, infact there is only 1 partition c:\ that is 67GB (2x73GB Disks in RAID1) and the page file size is set to system managed, however the pagefile grows to about 10GB at peak usage. The patches are updated and service pack is also installed. I will go for a reinstall and try allocating the page file to a new partition meanwhile any further help would be great, thanks.