Best way to setup for server

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marsha

Hi,
I know this may not be exactly on topic for this ng, but I know
there are a bunch of people in here that know how to tweak or
tune or adjust a regular xp pro os to be a better server. This is
for network usage. It will just be the holder of some data that
other users (5) will be accessing for that data.

Thanks
 
Simple steps to better performance:

Right-click My Computer select properties. Go to the "Advanced" tab, under
performance, select the Settings button. Click the box for "adjust for best
performance". You can also manually set the page file (swap file) size, even
put it on it's own partition so it doesn't have to deal with frags and
grow/shrink. Sometimes you'll have to tweak it a bit to get it right.
Ideally it should be as small as possible without ever being exhausted.
Realistically you need to allow some headroom. The customary place to start
is a 1.5X your RAM size. You can use task manager or perfmon to check usage
and adjust as necessary.

....kurt
 
Kurt said:
Simple steps to better performance:

Right-click My Computer select properties. Go to the "Advanced" tab, under
performance, select the Settings button. Click the box for "adjust for
best performance".
Click to expand...

That setting is to optimize the Visual Effects only.
In the same screen you can also select Advance and set the Processor
scheduling to Background services and Memory usage to System cache.
 
For posterity and those who follow, I found that xp pro was a slower
than windows 2000. Since we have both and I had the time, I replaced
xp pro with windows 2000. Then I found one very important change in
order for it to work as a file server. I had to increase the size of a
buffer.
That made it work perfectly. Instructions below:

To add/edit the buffer in question
Select Hkey_Local_Machine > System > CurrentControlSet > Services >
LanManServier > Parameters

If SizReqBuf is not listed - Add it

Edit > New > DWordValue <okay> (name = SizReqBuf)

With SizReqBuf selected

Edit > Modify - Select Decimal and enter 65535 for the value.

or Hex ffff



Exit the registry and reboot the Data Server and all Workstations
 
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