I have an xServe Dual 2Ghz with 2GB RAM, OS X 10.3.9 and 1Gbps connection to the network. Whenever someone searches one of the shares (Which is on a xRAID), afp services slowdown to a crawl. CPU usage for AppleFileServer go up to around 40% and Disk Activity (Data in/sec) jumps up to almost 40MB/sec. It seems that the Disk Activity is what is slowing the entire service down. Is this normal, or is there any way to throttle the searching? I’d rather have searching run a little slower than all file transfers crawl and beachball on the client end. The xRAID has 1TB capacity but only about 10% is free. I know the directory structure is very pretty messy too. I’m sure this doesn’t help, but could this be the source of all my problem?
Thanks!