Server hang/halt frequently

[tflow93]

Dear Support,

As refer to the above issue encountered by me recently, the authorised agent found that this is due to the harddisk speed that can't cater for logging users' activities process, therefore, he advised to turn off the logging users activities process. Pls advise.

Thank you.

[adrien]

Hi

this is not an uncommon problem on server hardware with cheaper RAID controller cards, specifically cards that have no write caching built in (e.g. no battery-backed or flash-backed write cache).

by default many of these force write-through to the disk, which makes performance abysmal for situations with lots of small writes (as in WinGate logging)

I would recommend using the raid controller card management utility to enable write caching, even if only on the attached drives.

You can see how much the lack of write caching affects write performance with several freeware disk benchmarking programs. Get one that will do 512 byte writes. e.g. Bench32 by Atto Technologies.

Regards

Adrien