Novell network and NT clients (AREV Specific)
At 12 OCT 1998 12:35:25PM Rusty Wirt wrote:
Several of our clients are migrating to Novell and NT networks that are using NT for the workstations. They have installed the appropriate NLM's or service packs, but they are experiencing severe degradation in performance. Reports that would take 5 minutes under WIN95 workstations are now taking 45 minutes. What adjustments can be done on the NT workstations that will increase performance?
At 14 OCT 1998 10:18AM Rob Misek Revelation wrote:
Rusty–
Are you experiencing this slowdown with the NLM or the NT service? If it is with the NLM, there are a few things that you can double-check that could cause the performance issues that you are speaking of. Make sure that the you have the REVPARAM file, with the line serveronly=1, in the directories that include files with extensions .lk and .ov. Also make sure you are not autodetecting your frametype.
Here are some adjustments that you can make that will increase the performance of the NT service. If you are running a FAT formatted hardrive check the config.sys, if you are running a NTFS formatted hardrive check the config.nt file. Within this file you should see a line including 'files=????'. The number of files should be over 100, so set it to be 200. Then, try clearing the slate completely, by logging all users out and stop the service, remove and recreate the service. Unmap the workstations from the server. Then reboot the server and reboot the workstations, respectively. Remap the workstations to the server and launch your application. This should fix any slowdowns that the NT service is experiencing.