[windows2000] Re: large number of files in folder, slow lan a ccess

  • From: Mark Mucher <mm@xxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:15:42 -0400

RAID 1 or 5?  If 5, can you change to 1?

Maybe play with stripe sizing?

Guess you can't increase cache if it's embedded...

Mark



Richard Hopper wrote:

>It a 4 drive ( all 160scsi ) hardware raid. Using an embedded adaptec raid
>controller.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Mucher [mailto:mm@xxxxxx]
>Sent: 07 October 2002 16:16
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: large number of files in folder, slow lan
>access
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>You didn't say anything about drives, drive controllers, etc.
>
>Mark
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>Richard Hopper wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>      I have a NT4 server which has a few folders with a fairly large
>>number of files. 4000, or 12000 say.  Most of the files are fairly small <
>>16K.   Browsing through these folders is painfully slow.  The server is not
>>heavily loaded by any means.  Is there anything I can do to improve this.
>>The server is a 333Mhz PII with 256meg of ram. with over 180 megs of ram
>>available.
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>
>>Richard
>> 
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