Question : Problem: Application performance degraded after upgrading from SQL 2005 32 Bit to SQL 2008 64 Bit

Hi,

I have just configured my C# multi-threaded application from 32 bit to 64 bit platform for getting more memory support. But my application runs up to 40 - 50% slower as compared to 32 bit platform.

The overall idea about the multithreaded application is, we do recalculation for server hundred thousand records available in the database. Fetch the records from the table and do the recalculation finally it will update it into the table.

Earlier we had the following sever configuration as bellow

OS- Windows 2003 server 32 bit version
SQL - SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition for 32 bit version
8GB RAM

Now we changed to the latest version

OS- Windows 2003 server 64 bit version
SQL - SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for 64 bit version
8GB RAM

The application was working fine and recalculated 3000 records per minute. But now after changing to 64 bit version it is calculating only 1200 records per minute.


I have tried with the following scenarios.

Changed to enterprise edition 64 bit version and tested - no improvement (memory utilization is high)
Page lock in memory in enterprise version and tested - no improvement (memory utilization is high).


Can you suggest where I need to concentrate to improve the performance? (OS Level / SQL Level /Application Level)

Answer : Problem: Application performance degraded after upgrading from SQL 2005 32 Bit to SQL 2008 64 Bit

Turns out that the test was complicated by a change in the raid configuration. We moved from a raid 1 to a raid 5 drive setup. Raid 5 has poor performance in random r/w and this is we think causing the problem. Going to change to RAID 10 and see if that resolves the issue.