Sure sounds like it to me. What's your I/O subsystem look like on that box?
What's your disk fragmentation look like? Are you running a nice, wide,
array on high performance SAS disks? or a 3 disk RAID5 on SATA?
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"Geb" <geb@_nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
> Quote:
>> I/O throughput? If your disk subsystem gets bogged down, everything
>> will slow to a crawl.
>>
>> Another possibility is memory fragmentation. If the host box has been
>> up for a long time, it might have fragmented memory, especially if
>> this is a 32-bit 2k3 box.
>
> I just rebooted, a little improvement but still slow. I turned on
> performance monitor and the ave.disk queue lenght is always at 100.
> Does this indicate a problem?
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