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Each morning begins the same with frantic emails telling me that staff can't access or get into registers and some waiting ages for screens to load. Then after the registration time the MIS comes to life and is usable again. I've used process explorer to monitor the server but the cpu barely peaks above 70% , the network and disk don't particularly go mad at registration times and yet the performance greatly suffers. We installed 15.1 of eportal/facility recently in hope that it resolves the performance but instead brought new problems of events being blank whilst keeping the same performance issues. We're not exactly a huge school but does anyone have eportal not slowdown to absolute crawl at registration time? I've followed their tech sheet for the problems: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Below are links to guides to enhance the performance of ePortal. Please run through each of these articles one by one if you are experiencing performance problems. Before making any modifications please ensure that you have taken a back up of Facility Admin and made a copy of the ‘ePortal’ folder (usually located in C:\Facility\ePortal\Webapps, assuming a default install) to ensure you have a back up copy of the current configuration settings. Checking the Server Details Check the current server specification - intel xeon 1.9ghz 4gb ram Available disk space on server -10gigs on all disks free Size of audittrail and transaction Log -cleared at half term Check for multiple installs of ePortal -none Check for open ports -nothing has changed Conflicts with other software -no new software except eportal updates Check the regional settings -england gmt Scheduled task for an overnight stop/start of eportal -yup we have 2 batch files Check network communication between SQL and ePortal servers (if separate) -they aren't separate Force network speed for adapters and switches -haven't tried yet, not sure if applicable Monitor disk usage -yes and it doesn't seem intense but what measurements should i compare too? Disabling Microsoft Group Policy to troubleshoot poor ePortal performance -really don't want to have to do that SQL server priority boost setting -not done yet ePortal Configuration Settings Check the contents of the webapps folder -removed old files today Changing configuration files for roll call/registration -done Comment out alerts and behaviour bitlets Updating/Removing Data in Admin Reduce number of Admin users -not sure if we have too many but we try to restrict this Check number of users with BMFULL access Set behaviour alerts to expire -i am looking into this at the moment, but we are debating whether we will lose important information Remove all expired messages Regards Paul ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Is anyone else having Eportal issues of slowdown? have you resolved yours? if so please help me.