John, You could be describing my setup except I have 8 maximum users and most workstations are running WIN2K. The only difference I can tell with your setup is the 1 GB network. Also, do you have a hub or a switch? My operation hums consistently.
Claudine :) ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Docherty Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 5:49 AM To: RBG7-L Mailing List Subject: [RBG7-L] - Network Performance V7.5 Further to my earlier post regarding network performance, I would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced performance problems with V7.5 and Windows 2003 Server, in multi-user mode. I have found that when one user connects to a database the peak packets per second is about 100 when scrolling through a table using a form, yet when a second user connects the traffic increases to about 8000 packets/sec, and performance slows to a crawl. Even when the second user disconnects and exits RBase, the traffic stays at the same level. In order to get the performance back to an acceptable level it is necessary to restart RBase with only one user. (The traffic figures are as indicated by my demo version of EtherPeek NX) I have tried V6.5 for DOS on the network, which I appreciate, has considerably fewer demands than the Windows version, and find that this works as expected, with good performance. V7.1 also performs considerably better than 7.5 with a similar, but not identical form, with peak traffic being only of the order of 1000 packets / sec. Other software on the network does not experience problems such as this, so I can only assume that the issue relates to RBase V7.5 (and maybe Forms in particular, although I have also found printing to be slow) and Windows 2003, and possibly some other software on the network. (The server is a 2.8 GHz XEON, SCSI drive, with a maximum of about 10 users; workstations are typically 2.8 GHz boxes, with 512MB or 1GB RAM running XPP. All NICs are 100MBit/s) Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I am currently forced to run my applications with only one user, which is not the way it is meant to be. Regards John Docherty
