Re: VFP & Server 2012

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, at 10:45 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > Thanks for the replies, yes we used to disable SMB2 to remove the index > corruption issue but this now seems to be a performance issue. > > This particular scenario is 2 brand new Server 2012 boxes, fully patched. > One is the server and one is a remote desktop box. So far nothing has > been messed with or tweaked. > > An application which used to run fine on the older servers now runs a lot > slower, the application in question is Pegasus Opera 3 which I know some > of you are familiar with. > > Thanks > > Chris. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan > Bourke > Sent: 22 June 2017 10:37 > To: profoxtech@leafe.com > Subject: Re: VFP & Server 2012 > > There was an issue with SMB2 in the early days of Server 2008, which was > subsequently fixed by MS and before the fix the workaround was to knock > it back to SMB1. Ever since it was fixed we have not had to touch > anything to do with these types of networking settings in the normal > course of events. These days you definitely want everything running at > SMB2 or SMB3 (as negotiated automatically between clients and the > server) or it you'll definitely see sub-optimal speed. > > > > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, at 10:25 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I have read through previous posts on this subject, but the more I > > read the more confused I get as to what advice I should be following. > > > > We have a situation where speed issues are affecting a VFP application. > > The data is held on a Server 2012 server. Previously we have be told to > > disable SMB2 etc, but it seems now that this shouldn't be an issue. > > > > I have now found mentions of a SMB2 registry setting along the lines > > of the OPLOCKS thing years ago. This setting is DisableLeasing, has > > anyone else faced similar issues and/or used this DisableLeasing > > option to improve application performance? > > > > Thanks > > > > Chris. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > text/html > > --- > > [excessive quoting removed by server]