[windows2000] Re: about the file transferring between 2003 serverand 2000 server
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 13:50:04 +0200
Tim Mangan <> wrote on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:46 PM:
That's what I thought. Good to hear that I wasn't entirely wrong... 8-)
> Such tools "work" by allocating a lot of memory and then freeing it. In
> between, that causes the system to page out other memory. Thus the leaked
> memory ends up paged out where it does less harm. It might make you feel
> good that you are doing something but it really doesn't help. Windows would
> have done the page-out eventually anyway when needed.
>
> Tim Mangan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:39 AM
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: about the file transferring between 2003
serverand
> 2000 server
>
> Chris Berry <> wrote on Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:58 AM:
>
> I've tried that applet with several Windows-flavours, but never saw any real
> improvement. Does this kind of programs really work as intended?
>
>
>> While it doesn't fix the memory leak, we use a program called MaxMEM
>> that
> can
>> free up memory, thus working around the problem. The program is a free
>> download from AnalogX.
>>
>> Chris Berry
>> chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Information Advisory Manager
>> JM Associates
>>
>> "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,
>> we
> don't
>> believe in it at all." --Noam Chomsky
>>
>>
>> Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>> Something is leaking memory on your server. AFAIK, some of the memory
>>> is being used as a cache when transferring files, after a while, as
>>> the
> memory
>>> fills up, there is less and less memory available for the cache, thus
>>> the performance decreasing. At least this is how I percieve this sort
>>> of
> memory
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> Did you apply all relevant service packs and patches?
>>>
>>> If I were you, I'd get Prcess Explorer from Sysinternals, and check
>>> the
> the
>>> apps and services running over a few days, and see what, if any, of
>>> them
> is
>>> hogging RAM.
>>>
>>> For example I run a diskdefragger called Perfect Disk that is a known
leaker
>>> - it starts out at some 12MB and finishes after a week at approx
> 80-120MB,
> at
>>> which point you may or may not be able to restart the service and
>>> make
> the
>>> problem go away, or the computer may just die, frozen.
>>>
>>> I've also seen something similar to your problem after installing a
gigabit
>>> NIC in one server. Copying from server to workstation is mostly fine
>>> with speed ranging from 10 to 170MBps. From workstation to server
>>> rarely
> works,
>>> except if the server is newly rebooted (and it's RAM mostly unused).
>>> The server is underpowered for a gb-NIC with a 1200MHz Athlon and
>>> 512MB RAM, while the workstation is a Athlon XP 3000+ (approx
>>> 2200MHz) with 1GB RAM
> -
> my
>>> understanding is that the server can't keep up with the workstation.
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>
>>> _____
>>>
>>> From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Haixin Wang
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 4:09 AM
>>> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [windows2000] about the file transferring between 2003
>>> server
> and
>>> 2000 server
>>>
>>>
>>> There might be something wrong with the networking setting between one
>>> win2003 server and another win2000 server.
>>> Once the win2003 is reboot, the file copying from 2003 to 2000 is
>>> quite
> fast
>>> and the rate might go up to 80% of 100MB internal network connection.
>>> But after few days or few weeks, such transferring rate might drop to
>>> 5%
> or
>>> 1% of 100MB without any error notifications. And then we reboot 2003
server
>>> again, the transferring rate goes back to 80% as normal.
>>> And this win2000 server is working well with other xp and win2000 servers.
>>>
>>> What's going on there?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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