I didn't see any further posts on this, so I will chip in my $0.02 ...
A sniff of the packets would be really interesting, but assuming you don't
have this setup, another very good tool is 'filemon'. I've mainly used it
with NT4, but according to readme runs on with 9x/NT/2000. You don't even
need to install it, just 3 files (+ help + readme). It will tell you all
the file calls your PC is making. You will be amazed at how hard Windows
looks for stuff (eg every directory in the path, etc), you really wonder if
the people who write the code realise how un-efficient it is, guess it is
the modular approach that does it.
Anyway, with FileMon you will be able to see the file open, read, write
activity that the PC is making. If you can't find it on the net let me
know, but that is where I got it from (eg google).
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2002 1:47 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Win2000 Pro Network Settings
We just upgraded a couple Win 98se CAD workstations to Windows 2000 Pro and
are finding that one CAD application to output CNC mill instructions is
running a lot slower. The CAD file being worked on is on a "shared" PC
acting as a file server (running Win98). The vendor says the slowness is a
network issue. Moving the CAD file to the local drive does speed it up a
lot (from 15 min to 3 seconds !) so this confirms it. When running Win98se
it ran very fast (3-4 seconds to output 80,000 lines of instructions). So
it seems to me the upgrade must have changed some network setting.
Any ideas for Win2000 settings that may need to be looked at? All machines
involved are in the same room connected to the same 100Mb switch. The only
thing that changed was the OS.
Thanks,
-Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.
A sniff of the packets would be really interesting, but assuming you don't
have this setup, another very good tool is 'filemon'. I've mainly used it
with NT4, but according to readme runs on with 9x/NT/2000. You don't even
need to install it, just 3 files (+ help + readme). It will tell you all
the file calls your PC is making. You will be amazed at how hard Windows
looks for stuff (eg every directory in the path, etc), you really wonder if
the people who write the code realise how un-efficient it is, guess it is
the modular approach that does it.
Anyway, with FileMon you will be able to see the file open, read, write
activity that the PC is making. If you can't find it on the net let me
know, but that is where I got it from (eg google).
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Thursday, 16 May 2002 1:47 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Win2000 Pro Network Settings
We just upgraded a couple Win 98se CAD workstations to Windows 2000 Pro and
are finding that one CAD application to output CNC mill instructions is
running a lot slower. The CAD file being worked on is on a "shared" PC
acting as a file server (running Win98). The vendor says the slowness is a
network issue. Moving the CAD file to the local drive does speed it up a
lot (from 15 min to 3 seconds !) so this confirms it. When running Win98se
it ran very fast (3-4 seconds to output 80,000 lines of instructions). So
it seems to me the upgrade must have changed some network setting.
Any ideas for Win2000 settings that may need to be looked at? All machines
involved are in the same room connected to the same 100Mb switch. The only
thing that changed was the OS.
Thanks,
-Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.