>We have SharePoint running on a dual processor Dell
>server. We have tons of disk space, 2 1 ghz CPU's and
>1 GB of memory. Nothing else runs on that machine.
That should fly! On my 800MHz single CPU machine with 256MB RAM, it's
fast, no problem. Are you sure the correct drivers for your disks are
loaded? "Tons of disk space" could waste a lot of time if somehow setup
incorrectly... just a shot in the dark, but maybe?
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>What can be done to speed things up? I know there is
>an optimization paper Microsoft wrote but not sure if
>that has anything useful in it.
It's always a good idea to read these fully if you want to understand
the thinking behind the product as well as details of it's internals.