We have an 8 pc network with FM Server 5 running on Windows Server 2000 and all Client PCs running on Win2k. When scripts are running on one pc, users of the other pc's are finding general performance (eg. opening Word, emails etc) slowing down considerably. Is this meant to happen?!

Regards

Nick

No. Sounds like it might be a network load problem. What is your network type and are you using hubs or switches?

-bd

What kind of "scripts" are running?

What else is running on the Win2k Server? File sharing? Domain Controller? DNS? Entrouage Server?

Network is tcp/ip utilising 1 switch.

Nothing else is running on Win2k server. It is a dedicated machine to host fmserver, no file sharing etc

Scripts tend to be checking for duplicates, deletes etc

Thanks in advance for any help

Nick

Is it switch or hub?

Being redundant... what kind of scripts are you talking about? When does the problem started? For me it looks like there's something wrong with your switch however, we definitely need more details to issue a better opinion.

It is a switch, not a hub. Problems seem to happen only when running scripts, especially when doing mass deletes

If it is switch, then the traffic between FM server and clients ports cannot affect other users plugged in different ports.

I know the logic Anatoli, but it is happening and I don't know what to do. (And I have double checked, it is definatley a switch not a hub)

May be a faulty switch or dodgy ports on the switch.

Try this

Disconnect all cables going into the switch except for:

FMServer

2 Clients

Run a script on 1 of the clients, is the other client affected?

Ed.

Try your database without FM Server to see what happen. Also, check your "suspect" script, maybe need some code improvement or debugging job.