Hi All,

I am running Server 5 on windows XP. Recently, i believe after installing XP Sp2 my server is CONSTANTLY pausing and resuming writes on all hosted files which is forcing disconnects to all users with the files open. This is causing alot of problems obviously. The messages are taken from the event log. What's up with this? Please help.

Rich

Try setting your XP for optimum use of cache. Control Panel | System | Advanced | Performance Settings | Advanced | Memory Usage | System Cache

There are 2 reasons that server will pause writes. One is flushing the database cache. This is set in the Admin console under database hosting. Every time the cache is flushed, the file is paused. If you have this set for 15 minutes, say the files will pause every 15 minutes, etc. My recommendation is to leave this option unchecked. The server will flush the cache on files when they are idle. Another recommendation is to include the "Flush cache to disk" script step in the close scipt for all hosted files. This will ensure client's changes are saved and the file cache is flushed each time a user closes the file.

The other time the files are paused is during a server backup. If you have several backups scheduled that can cause pauses (and problems for users). If more than one backup is necessary per day, I would suggest trying to schedule the backup during slack times like early in the morning, late at night or during lunchtime, where it impacts users the least.

Thanks guys, i will check out your ideas!