No option for Jumbo Packets on the Broadcom NetXtreme
Flow Control is Off and Checksum and Large Send Offload enabled. I can easily copy at 40-50MBs on these servers irrespective of the file size and the NIC properties are all set the same. I have an almost identical set up elsewhere with 2 servers identical to the ones with the copy issue and also running Server 2008 SP2, same NIC, drives and RAM and the same Planet It feels as if its run out of RAM but the Task manager shows only around 30% RAM usage. After around 5 mins I can, but its very sluggish. after cancelling or completing a copy, I can’t remotely log on to the Server without it timing out. The 2008 Server grinds to a halt during theĬopy and, although it recovers afterwards, it takes some time to do so.
This indicates that the NIC can handle the throughput but windows is choking the copy after its cache fills or memory is saturated. Usually, I kill the copy as I can’t have it copying for 2 hours. When copying to the Main servers, it just gradually diminishes to around the same. Indicator stops completely for a while, then restarts but now running at around 13MBs. When copying to the test server, the progress When I copy a file, it starts off copying at anything up to 85MBs, This lasts for the first 1 or 2 GB, then it starts to drop off. I don’t want to resort to Robocopy or other copy utilities just to move a file from a-b so want a fix to this problem. I’m using simple explorer based file copy and it’s a real pain. Usually Virtual Disks, or Workstation Drive Images. When I mean large, I’m talking 5-20GB files. I am experiencing big problems in copying large files between the servers. We also have Planet Gigabit Smart switches to connect the structured cat5e network. All are fast machines with plenty of RAM, plenty of processing capacity and never have their resources over utilised. Both have Kaspersky Enterprise Edition installed (latest version with updates) One acts as Primary DC and is also a Print Server for 6 printers, has IIS7 enabledįor light in-house use and the second is used solely as a primary file server. They also both have Active Directory Roles Installed. Each server is running Windows 2008 Server Std with SP2 and all the latest updates.
We have Server Grade Seagate SATA drives (i.e. We have 2 x Asus RS120 E5 servers with Quad core Intel processors, Gigabit LAN and 8GB RAM.