Server Sizing

Question

Our server seems to be running slow and I am wondering if we have it sized well based on the number of services we are running. I know we can try to clean it up and that is on the to-do list, but I was just wondering if there were any guidelines for sizing the system.

berniejconnors · Answer

Marcelo provided some good advice above but ArcGIS Monitor is a very expensive tool.  You may want to start with the System Log Parser (SLP) which you can download for free from Github.  Here is a blog post about SLP.  You can get the latest release of SLP from Github.  SLP will give you info on how your services are performing.  It won't do real-time monitoring of your services but it will give you some insight into your server and services.

Bernie.

MMBR · Answer

- always leave 16gb memory free for the OS

- if system is running above 80% cpu utilization then consider to add more CPUs

- if system is running above 80% memory utilization then consider to add more memory

- check the size of swap and paging file, and if swap file is using C:\ and file is large then move to a different disk to reduce disk contention.

- if C:\ disk is low on disk space then need to increase, always run Disk CleanUp tool to remove old Windows Updates files.

- Tune the ArcGIS Server Services min/max number of SOCs properly.

- implement ArcGIS Monitor , this is the tool to monitor your ArcGIS Enterprise deployments and ArcGIS Server Services, and it can provide a lot more information to proper tune the system.

I hope this helps.