OpenEdge performance issues with Windows 2003 Server SP3 with Broadcom NICs

Progress KBase entry P128141 may be of note to Progress users on Windows 2003 Server if you are running into intermittent performance problems.

Windows 2003 SP3 deploys with the incorrect version of a Broadcom NIC driver causing potentially severe performance problems. As many IBM blade centers ship with Broadcom NICs, and newer ones particularly with the NetExtreme II this kbase entry is worthy of review especially if your planning on going to SP3 of Windows 2003 Server or have and are noticing any performance degradation post patch.

Additionally the SP3 release of Windows Server 2003 releases an entirely new network protocol architecture which attempts to off load the TCP protocol stack (among others) onto the NIC. We are reviewing the effect of this on performance, particularly in regards to short lived TPC connections (WebSpeed, AppServer, HTTP, etc).

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