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| Author: | momorg [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Hi all first time poster long time MSS owner. I decided to take the plunge and give 2011 a shot. I installed it on my EX 470 with 2gb ram. Everything is up and running, but I can't seem to get past a persistent lagging problem. When I try to open any of the share folders on a client, it will sometimes either lag for a bit before opening the folder, or worse yet just not open at all and put me in perpetual wait. The server is running a 750GB WD green drive. I also have 2x 2TB WD Green drives (one EADS one EARS), and a 1.5tb seagate drive. I have a docking station hooked up to the esata port with the original 500gb drive for server backups. In order to troubleshoot the problem, I have disabled all settings on the NIC that offload etc. I have tried disabling the firewall. I have turned off the Media player network sharing services hoping it was a load issue. I installed a plugable usb to ethernet adapter thinking it may be a driver issue on the Sis NIC. These all at times seemed to help the problem, but to no avail. When this issue occurs I am not even able to RDP into the server and have to do a hard reboot. I've looked at the event viewer for anything obvious. This is causing a huge problem with using mymovies and tv library. Anyone experiencing similar problems and any pointers? Thanks |
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| Author: | momorg [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Alright I turned off homegroup and just setup username accounts. I kept getting a windows server network service helper has stopped message. I disabled that. I am now getting a message at precisely 54 min after the hour that the server has restarted. It hasn't because I have an RDP window open and it hasn't closed. I've had this happen 4 times today. |
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| Author: | wildbilll [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Is this a new install? Is it busy trying to perform a backup? Is it trying to index the drives? Can you see what processes are running and what percentage of CPU is being used for each process? How much ram is free out of the 2 gigs? |
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| Author: | momorg [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Yes it was a new install. This problem was not happening during a backup. To remove the chance of indexing I turned off the indexing service and it was still happening. Unfortunately when it was happening I wasn't able to RDP to check what was going on. I don't think memory is an issue... Right now it says: Total 2015 Cached 865 Available 972 Free 139 FWIW, I have not had a problem for a while now. Most of the errors are gone. Here's what I've done... unfortunately, I can't pinpoint the one thing that fixed it and I'm not quite ready to find the problem again. - I turned off windows server network service helper service because the event viewer kept saying it stopped. - I removed the homegroup - I turned off all homegroup services - I removed my movies and associated SQL server from the server - I have individual user accounts now for access to the server When I open the share folder now it is much more responsive. Sometime there is a small (less than a second) lag opening the folder. I have been able to return my NIC settings back to factory. I am still using my USB to ethernet adapter though. Once I feel the system is stable, I'll return some of the server function back to factory and see if the problem triggers. I am still getting server restart messages in the alert viewer, but it doesn't actually restart. |
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| Author: | wildbilll [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
I had a EX487 that I installed the Vail beta on, it had 2 GB Ram in it. I had it working OK but I finally decided to restore it back to WHS v1 and I sold it on eBay. It bugged me that the lights didn't work. I think I could have upgraded the CPU but it isn't easy to do as I read about it. I took the proceeds and put it toward a home built WHS and the performance is spectacular in comparison. This one has 3 hard drives - 2 1TB EADS and 1 2TB Samsung HD204UI. 8 GB Ram. AMD Athlon 2 X2 250. I think my power consumption is 80 watts idling with the monitor turned off. Yours is probably closer to 50 watts. |
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| Author: | erail [ Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
I think the lag is memory oriented. 139megs of memory free out of 2 gigs is not good. That's basically what I show on my EX485 and I'll look to upgrade memory to 4 gigs and see if it has a profound effect on lag. |
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| Author: | wildbilll [ Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
I don't know if the EX470 will accept more than 2 gigs. |
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| Author: | erail [ Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Sure it will, if you look at my signature, I have been running 4 gig for months in an EX470. Looks like they are getting more difficult to find though. Just a DDR2 PC6400 4 gig stick will do. |
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| Author: | momorg [ Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
I thought free didn't matter with Win 7 because most of the memory is cached. I have a 4GB win 7 system that has only 24mb free. I thought the available was what is not being used. |
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| Author: | erail [ Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: EX470 WHS 2011 lag and drops connection |
Well, put the 4 gig memory into the EX485 and the lag is gone. It is much more responsive machine. |
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