From: "Neil" 
Subject: Disk Cache/ compression problem
Date: 1998/07/22
Message-ID: #1/1
Newsgroups: fido.novell

I am running Novell 4.1 25 user. Every time I do a large copy to the
fileserver from a local hard drive, the server then locks up for about an
hour performing some sort of hard disk ritual. This is taking up 100%
utilisation thus preventing anybody from using the server and there seems
to be nothing I can do except wait.

A file server should be able to handle large throughputs of data in this
way without much problem.

The server is a P100 with 64MB of RAM. The disk volume is a 525MB SCSI
drive.

Is the server compressing the information? because it seems to hold a lot
of information for a 525MB. Any tips on speeding up the server are vey much
appreciated.

Neil