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Bartly

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:52 pm
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Our accounting program is a web application, .NET based, running on IIS. The
backend is SQL 2000 on a different server. I am building a new Windows 2003
IIS server for this application. I want to make sure that from the
perspective of hardware and configuration, it is optimized, since it is a
very slow application to begin with. Specifically:

1. Is it a benefit to run more than one processor for a web server?
2. Is it a benefit to have more than one disk array?

Any other tips?

Thanks!
Bart

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:55 am
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Of coz, generally, the more hardware you got, the better performance you may
get.
Now, I would suggest you try to identify why the app is being slow. Long db
query ? hardware bottle neck? etc.
you could do a timestamp in your app to track down the time, etc

and of coz you should stress test the app and create a performance baseline
of that specific set of hardware. try WAS tool from microsoft to test it.

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"Bartly" <Bartly RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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 > Our accounting program is a web application, .NET based, running on IIS.
 > The
 > backend is SQL 2000 on a different server. I am building a new Windows
 > 2003
 > IIS server for this application. I want to make sure that from the
 > perspective of hardware and configuration, it is optimized, since it is a
 > very slow application to begin with. Specifically:
 >
 > 1. Is it a benefit to run more than one processor for a web server?
 > 2. Is it a benefit to have more than one disk array?
 >
 > Any other tips?
 >
 > Thanks!
 > Bart<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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Kristofer Gafvert [MVP]

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:33 am
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Yes, it is a benefit to have multiple CPUs.

Try to use cache, and memory as much as possible, since disk access is in
general slower than memory access.

Also try the ASP.NET newsgroups for tips how to increase performance for
your applications. If your web application is bad designed, and with bad
performance, better hardware will not help much.


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Bartly wrote:

 > Our accounting program is a web application, .NET based, running on IIS.
The
 > backend is SQL 2000 on a different server. I am building a new Windows
2003
 > IIS server for this application. I want to make sure that from the
 > perspective of hardware and configuration, it is optimized, since it is a
 > very slow application to begin with. Specifically:
 >
 > 1. Is it a benefit to run more than one processor for a web server?
 > 2. Is it a benefit to have more than one disk array?
 >
 > Any other tips?
 >
 > Thanks!
 > Bart<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:21 am
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Thank you, this was helpful. Unfortunately, I do not have any control over
the application design, that is up to the vendor. The vendor has not been too
willing to admit how slow the application is either. My guess is that the
database is poorely optimized, and maybe the app is poorely designed too, I
don't really know for sure. However, what I do have control over is the
hardware performance, so that is what I will take care of.

Thanks

"Kristofer Gafvert [MVP]" wrote:

 > Yes, it is a benefit to have multiple CPUs.
 >
 > Try to use cache, and memory as much as possible, since disk access is in
 > general slower than memory access.
 >
 > Also try the ASP.NET newsgroups for tips how to increase performance for
 > your applications. If your web application is bad designed, and with bad
 > performance, better hardware will not help much.
 >
 >
 > --
 > Regards,
 > Kristofer Gafvert (IIS MVP)
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.gafvert.info" target="_blank">www.gafvert.info</a> - My Articles and help
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 >
 >
 > Bartly wrote:
 >
  > > Our accounting program is a web application, .NET based, running on IIS.
 > The
  > > backend is SQL 2000 on a different server. I am building a new Windows
 > 2003
  > > IIS server for this application. I want to make sure that from the
  > > perspective of hardware and configuration, it is optimized, since it is a
  > > very slow application to begin with. Specifically:
  > >
  > > 1. Is it a benefit to run more than one processor for a web server?
  > > 2. Is it a benefit to have more than one disk array?
  > >
  > > Any other tips?
  > >
  > > Thanks!
  > > Bart
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