Intel,Altiris Group

In Brief: Network Utilization @ .37 % when in the past was approximately 12%. No Switch or server NIC card setting changes will correct this.

Details:
-Server:
* XP Pro Sp3
* 1GB RAM
* Intel P4 3GHz
* Gateway E-4300 (PC)

-DHCP Router:
* 1GB

Switch:
* Netgear GS724TS
*

-NIC:
GENERAL SETTING
* Marvel Yukon 88E8050 PCI Express
* TCP/IP
* QoS Active
* Back Pressure DISabled

CURRENT ADVANCED SETTINGS
* 802.1p Support Port A OFF
* Hardware Checksumming ON
* Interrupt Moderation ON
* Log Status Messages Errors
* Max IRQ per Sec 5000
* Maximum Frame Size 4507
* Media Type Auto Sence
* Network Address Not present
* Number of Receive Buffers 512 (Max)
* Number of Transmit Buffers 512 (Max)
* Wake Up Capabilities Pagic Packet and Pattern...


Hope someone can help. Thanks.

Can you give us regarding on "super-slow"
e.g. image size, time that it took. ... etc.
thanks !

Oh, yes.

GHost client & console screen shows an average of 19-25 MB/min with an image size of 16 GB. In the past it would average out @ 900 MB/min for the same image and it would take about 1:30 hours to image 24 machines when now, it takes over 3:30 hours to do just 8 (eight).


Oh, and the local OS hard drive has more than 20GB of free space.

I am running, as I have been in the past, image restores and captures from an external USB drive. I have run a single image clone from the USB and a single image clone form the local drive for testing.  It is known that Local drives perform faster but, for my testing purposes it won't relate.  I have seen that on both scenarios it took less than 25 minutes to image.

On the other hand, without restarting my host, I have attempted to run four clones off of one Local session and four closes off of one USB drive session and it shows that it will theoretically take ove nine hours to complete. In the past I have tested leaving these sessions running but have seen that it does not work. it always drops out at some point. It occasionally gives a meesage to the extent of, and I'm paraphrasing, "Failed to find [next] image file" and it gives me he options to continue, Abort, or cance. It all results in the same thing, a re-prompt of the message I just mentioned which leads to having to stop the imaging process.

Also,I have enables Backpressure on the switch. It seems like it gave it a little more stability.

Do you mean super-duper slow vs a previous version of Ghost?  There was another thread on this forum that said 11.x is twice as slow (ie: takes twice as long) to do a clone process as 8.x does, when cloning from/to the same physical drive but different partition (eg: GHO file on disk 1 partition 2, target is disk  1 partition 1.)  If this is the case, I'd suggest creating the image file using Ghost 8.x and then try restoring it using Ghost 11.x, and see what happens.  I'm just curious to see if it's a problem processing the image file (as in the 8-created GHO file is "simpler"), or if it's the actual 11.x client is poorly written or "too smart" and tries to do too much stuff.

I don't know if this would apply to physically connected USB drives also being slower.  There was no paritcular resolution to that thread.

I'm not sure what you mean by running four clones off one local session, or four closes (clones?) off of one USB drive session.  Do you mean your server runs four different Ghostcast Servers and you unicast from each GCS instance to some target computer?  Or is it one single GC session using multicast to four different target computers?

Good luck,
PH

I have experienced the same issue here. I have imaged 30 computers same hardware same drivers. Ghost Corp ver 2.5 comes up as 11.5V ghost cast netbooks will ghost in 2hrs and 5 mins. I use ghost corp 2.1 comes up as version 11 with ghost cast and same hardware same drivers even same computers and I ghost cast in 52 mins. I have repeated this anumber of times using different computers and all return similar issues with ghost cast time. I have stopped using ghost V2.5  and I have halved my ghosting session times. Other techs have also report similar issues with speed. Can you assist. The image is a little over 17gig in size. It has only been an issue with ghost Corp V2.5.
Any ideas would help. I have updated the ghost consul but o help..

Thanks

I have been running Ghost cast sessions tried running on Server 2003, server 2008 and Windows 7 all report same or similar times.
I have eliminated other network traffic as the ghost cast sessions are the only network traffic.
I can also run concurrent sessions and all reports are the same or very similar.