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Exchange 2003 running on 512MB of RAM is no exactly adequate, I would go for
at least doubling that if not quadrupling.  If you are running the dbase and
exchange on the same box then I would expect there to be a degradation in
speed.  What network card is on the server?  Is it running at its full
duplex speed or is it auto detected speed?  Sometimes the auto-detect speed
can be reduced to the 10Mbps and not the 100Mbps as you woudl expect.

What make of switch have you got?


On 11/1/07, Richard Moore <richard at juniperblue.com> wrote:
>
> Ben Butterfield wrote:
>
> > What do you reckon?
>
> If you are not running thin clients, are your workstations powered by
> celeron processors? If so, the lack of cache memory will slow things
> down. More Ram will help some, ideally a minimum of 512MB per machine.
>
> Run Task Manager (CTRL,ALT,DEL) and check what processes are being used,
> particularly the ones that seem to be using lots of memory. Copy the
> list and post it up if you don't know what everything is.
>
> Are your workstations free of virii and spyware? If you are running a
> full suite of Norton Antivirus or similar products, you may find it is
> using a lot of your system resources. Try NOD32 instead.
>
> Richard
>
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