I had a similar problem with speed, when test-driving a DEC. Turned out the
cache had been turned on in bios by whoever had the demo machine before me.
After it was turned back on, NT install went from 3 hours to 20 minutes.
Ken McClaren wrote in message <6ubac5$mga$1_at_supernews.com>...
>Hardware
>HP NetServer LHpro
> 2 P200 Processors
> Disk Array controller split into 2 banks of 3 drives setup for RAID 5
> 10BaseT Network
>
>OS
> NT 4.0 SPK 3.0
>
>Installed the second processor and Reinstalled NT from scratch. Configured
>disk arrays into 3 drives. 2GB dos partition to boot and 6GB Log file
>directory. The second drive is 8GB for the database. Everything works it's
>just extreamly SLOW. Installed the exact same software and hardware on an
>E45 server PII 266 and it runs rings around the LHPro. 20min query on the
>E45 takes over 24hrs to complete on the LHPro. Major problems.
>
>Boost is set to NONE
>Server is configured as an Application Server
>Performance monitor does not show any process as being very abnormal
>System has been rebooted
>I did have some problem stopping the database prior to the reboot.
>
Received on Thu Sep 24 1998 - 10:07:56 CDT
