RE: System specs
- From: pnoble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:55:04 -0000
Cheers for the reply John,
The 650 is supposedly the next model up from the 350 (we have two 350s here
also) being based on p4 rather than p3, cpu usage never seems to be an
issue, the whole system just seems to lack responsiveness or stability when
running.
Im going to try dedicate some time to run some performance monitors to see
whats going on, but just watching the system monitor it seems nothing in the
processes list is responsible for the system slow down.
Does anyone have the recommended up time a isa2004 system should be - or as
I suspect - is this actually indefinitely?
Paul.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:18 PM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: System specs
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Isn't the 650 considered a starter basic server?
While the CPU and memory you mention is fine, it may be more the bus speed
and drive I/O.
You should set up performance monitor with the basic items to see where the
bottle neck is.
BTW, I am running ISA 2000 on Windows Server 2003 with Message Screener,
Burstek Web filter, Burstek Log Analyzer and GFI Download Security on a Dell
350 with 1 GB PC133 memory, 1 GHz CPU and mirrored 7200 RPM ATA 133 drives
and CPU is not over 25% unless I am running a report. This is with 50 users
with heavy Internet usage and e-mail usage by half of them.
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:42 AM
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> Subject: [isalist] System specs
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> Hi there!
>
> We've got ISA2004 running on a windows 2003 server here. The system specs
> are as follows:
> Dell 650SC Poweredge server, single cpu 2.4ghz P4 with 1gb RAM, 1x 40gb
and
> 1x 80gb disks.
>
> Its running in standard edge setup with two nics installed. It runs as web
> proxy to all of our 100 users (of which normally about 40 are actively
using
> the net at any one time). It doesnt have a cache configured.
>
> We've also got Cyblock for ISA2004 webfilter installed.
>
> Reading around I cant find (probably being blind) recommended specs for a
> user base of this size and whether this system should be able to cope with
> the load its put under. Experience here has shown that the system doesn't
> really like what its being asked to do, the server is often very
> unresponsive to gui input, slow to serve up web pages via the proxy and
> flattly refuses to run correctly with a cache enabled or when a vpn
gateway
> is setup on it.
>
> Looking at the spec I've worried that the single cpu is really
bottlenecking
> the servers performance and was looking for a bit of guidance as to
whether
> people think this system should be ok or if a dual 933 p3 with 3gb ram
would
> be a more suitable system for ISA to run on?
>
> I'm suspect of the 650 because we bought 4 650's all at the same time and
> the others also exhibit increadibly poor performance compared to what I'd
> expect of a server class system.
>
> Any help or direction to a useful resource would be much appreciated.
>
> Paul @ reflections.
>
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