SharePoint User Group UK

Hi,

From last week suddenly our sites' performance have gone down the server which holds the site is also slow don't know why as till last week it was fine and suddenly it has gone down we neither added anything new nor uploaded any bulky documents. we are left clueless if anyone could give any suggestion will be helpful.

Thanks

JB

I take it you've done/checked the obvious things. Bounced the server, checked task manger to see if anythings hogging resources. Take a look at Idera as they have some SQL admin tools you can run to see if it's a problem with that.

Andrew

yeah we checked with all these things...

our server has 4GB RAM, 2.41Ghz. and checked all other settings everything seems to be fine. recently we haven't added anything as i said till last week it was working fine with same settings.

Which version of SharePoint are you using?

There are memory leaks etc which are fixed in Service Pack 1 - if you are not on that version, you might want to consider upgrading.

Also, check that your SQL Server disks are not fradmenting, especially around tempdb.  If you have not placed tempdb on a fast disk subsystem by itself, you might want to consider that.  Also, if you can size it, precreate it so that SQL Server does not have to keep grabbing more disk space.

Finally, check your SharePoint and system event logs on all servers to ensure that you don't have application errors that could be slowing things down.

Hiya

When you say 'the server which holds the site is also slow ' how can you tell that the server istelf is slow? By that I mean, what things (other than opening sharepoint sites) appear to be slow on the server?

If everything on the server is slow it is probably nothing to do with sharepoint.

Have you made any network changes? Not changes to that specific server (as you haven't made any) , but to other bits of the network, eg routers, DNS servers, etc?

Cheers, John

Hi,

Yes everything on the server is slow, even the 'start button' takes much time to respond. we tried increasing the  virtual memory and checked the physical working of RAM but no result.

One day the site was working fine and suddenly next day it went down. no clues about this strange behaviour...

thanks

JB

Hello there...

If even the Start button is slow to respond, it sounds like something more fundamental than sharepoint. Worth firing up PerfMon and looking at the styats in there. Also check event logs for any warnings.

Possibilities that spring to mind:-

1) A memory card has worked loose or failed, meaning that you have less RAM than before

2) problems with the hard disk making everything slow to load

3) Misbehaving antivirus software

4) Misbehaving sharepoint index crawler

Cheers, John