Upgraded mailbox to R6 design, now server REAL slow

Sunday night we finished the convert on the last of our R5 mailboxes to R6. We ran through the compact/updall of all the mailboxes both before and after the upgrade (probably overkill, but better safe then sorry?)

All of the mailboxes show ODS of 43 (R6 filetype) and show inotes6.ntf template.

Prior to this upgrade the Availability Index of the server was around 80-90 for 2500 mail files and other production databases.

Yesterday and today the AI is down to around 50-60 and seems to be holding steady, all of the users on that server are complaining that its REAL slow to access mailfiles, databases, etc.

Theres only 119 users connected now as I type this, and thats about all we have throughout the day (those servers are all out in the field/home so they replicate/dial up to access, which is also going slow when they download mail/replicate)

Is it possible this is laggy because of the ugprade and so many people are hitting it at once downloading the design/template changes?

Or is it possible now that upgrading to the R6 templates, the server isn’t robust enough to handle the load?

Here are the specs of the server:

Quad Xeon 3.4ghz

6 gigs ram

Win2k3 Server Enterprise with SP1

roughly 700 gigs of drive space in Raid, with about 300some gigs free.

When I look at the performance tab of the task manager it shows the 4 processors rougly low on the chart, some spikes at random intervals, overall CPU usage shows 2%

PageFile useage shows 1.7gig

Any ideas?

Will it get better once everyone has completed the downloads?

Subject: Upgraded mailbox to R6 design, now server REAL slow.

There are some issue with Win2k3 and older 6.5.x versions. I don’t think 6.5.1 is supported on Win2k3.

We’ve seen that the AI numbers are different in ND 6.5, so don’t compare your R5 to your ND65 servers. There is a TN on tuning the AI for your environment somewhere…

Also all your mail files now have a new time field in their inboxes, and that takes time to build the first time in. This will be especially painful for really big inboxes. Not big mailfiles per se, but folks with all their messages (1000’s) in the InBox!. We recommended that all our users clean up their inboxes by moving mesages to folders or archiving before the template upgrade to help aliveate this issuse.

We have clustered pairs of quad 1.6GHz HT’d Xeons with 4GBs of RAM aon Win2K Server and very similar mail file load loads and we’re running fine.