Adv Ser 2000 performance problem

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I have a W2K service pack 3 server. After a boot one day
I had a performance problem. The main application is a
browser based general business package. IIs appears to be
running at speed, the database seems to be running at
speed, but when the com objects talk to the db thru the
ODBC it is very slow. I have reinstalled and registerd
the Com objects and the ODBC, did not help. Here is where
it gets interesting, when I open the properties of 'My
Network Places' it is taking 45 seconds to produce the
window. The system CPU shows under 4%, memory is 25% used.
I have checked the host file and thought of everything
else I can. The local admin was "looking at things" at the
time this happened, but every thing he stated he looked at
can't explain the network places issue. I have tried
disabling the network ports (built into the motherboard)
but that did not seem to effect anything. I am open to any
ideas.
 
David said:
I have a W2K service pack 3 server. After a boot one day
I had a performance problem. The main application is a
browser based general business package. IIs appears to be
running at speed, the database seems to be running at
speed, but when the com objects talk to the db thru the
ODBC it is very slow. I have reinstalled and registerd
the Com objects and the ODBC, did not help. Here is where
it gets interesting, when I open the properties of 'My
Network Places' it is taking 45 seconds to produce the
window. The system CPU shows under 4%, memory is 25% used.
I have checked the host file and thought of everything
else I can. The local admin was "looking at things" at the
time this happened, but every thing he stated he looked at
can't explain the network places issue. I have tried
disabling the network ports (built into the motherboard)
but that did not seem to effect anything. I am open to any
ideas.
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Thats a name resolution issue. Network places uses netbios to populate
itself. To speed up resolution consider a DNS server and a WINS server to
support netbios applications. The alternative is distributing an lmhost file
with relevent entries for netbios names.

Otherwise, your network is purely running on netbios broadcasting to
eventually create the browse list.
 
Thats a name resolution issue. Network places uses netbios to populate
itself. To speed up resolution consider a DNS server and a WINS server to
support netbios applications. The alternative is distributing an lmhost file
with relevent entries for netbios names.

Otherwise, your network is purely running on netbios broadcasting to
eventually create the browse list.
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That was my first thought also. I neglected to mention
that it is a Domain Server running as both the DNS host
and WIN host.
 
David said:
That was my first thought also. I neglected to mention
that it is a Domain Server running as both the DNS host
and WIN host.
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All W2K PCs are technically a dns host and a netbios host by default.

Were you trying to say that both DNS server and WINS are running on that
system? If so, thats your problem. WINS only binds to the NIC thats first in
the tcp/ip binding order if that system is multi-homed and more often than
not, the WINS server does not include itself in the WINS database until you
add it manually.
 
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