Hi, First of all I want to say thanks to everyone who replied to my last email, some of the suggestion were excellent, and pointed me in the direction of things I should be doing. I ran some of the other stuff by the developers, and they have assured me we are set up there. Anyway, the reason I had originally written was that we have been having really strange problems that have been plaguing me for a while, and I can find no resolution to. I run a small LAN on a network segment with many other machines. Our LAN consists of 4 machines running IIS4, and 2 SQL servers all on NT 4.0. We are having a problem whereby 3 of the IIS machines are A LOT slower than the other one. We have run tests on the slow machines, and 2 of them can sometime take up to 2 minutes to download a 40KB page over a 10Mbps network. The 3 slow machines are also running Cold Fusion, 2 running 4.5.2, and one running 4.0. The 4.0 one gets less traffic than the other 2, and is slow, but is performing better than the other 2. We have checked network traffic, and although it does seem to be high, it is not excessive, especially on the slow machines. The problems seem to be really intermittent as well. On minute the machines will be really fast, the next moment clients requests will time out. I have tried switching the machines to another port on the hub, but this does not help, and I have also tried running a new cable from the NIC to the wall, but this does nothing either. I had initially thought it was a network issue, as I had monitored the servers, and they were not being overloaded, but the 4th IIS machine suffers no problems at all really. I am wondering if there may be a problem with the way memory is allocated, or with the number of threads being used, or even with the connection to the SQL server, as all 3 slow machines access the SQL server for some things. The other thing is that the 4th IIS machines does not run Cold Fusion, and it is consistently A LOT faster than the other 3 machines. Also on one of the slow machines, we have a virtual server set up, the sites on which do not use cold fusion. At times I have been unable to access the home page of the regular server which is a cold fusion page, but have been able to get to the virtual server. I am really running out of ideas and would love to hear any suggestions anybody may have. Thanks in Advance, Thomas. Random Tip: To ensure you have the latest security updates for your Microsoft products, go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/notify.asp where you can subscribe to an MS mailing list that will email you the details of any new security bulletins that are released. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
