Tony, does this happen to all of your servers ? does this only happen to specific clients on specific servers ? have you done any sort of S/W upgrade on the servers ? is the login script still running during this period of High CPU usage ? Mark --- Tony Brookus <tbrookus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Recently, I've had my published desktop users begin > to complain about > sluggishness and slowness. Essentially, they will be > working along and > suddenly everything freezes for 5-15 seconds. They > can type and click during > this time, but nothing will happen until after the > server wakes up and > catches up with them. After looking at it myself and > experiencing it > firsthand, I noticed that during this time the > processor usage would spike > to100% (the context switches/sec would also spike > up). The culprit seemed to > be the explorer.exe process of a user just logging > in. I also noticed that > every time a session was opened to the server (just > sitting at the login > prompt), winlogon.exe would eat up a bunch of > processor. Generally the > winlogon would use about 20% for about 10 seconds > and then drop. The > explorer.exe for a newly logged in user would rocket > to 50-60% processor > usage for about 10-15 seconds. > > Stats: > > - Windows NT 4.0 TSE SP6 (with the SRP installed) > > - Metaframe XP FR1 (though I have boxes still at 1.8 > SP3 that have the same > problem) > > - Thin clients are NCD 300s (connecting to a > published desktop) > > - Servers are mostly dual 400s with 2 gig of Ram > > So far with testing I haven't been able to figure > out a whole lot. I'm > actually building a test box from scratch and > testing each time I log an > application or change something. Only thing I've > noticed is that having > fewerfonts seems to help the winlogon processor > usage. > > The only change that I can think of during this > period was that we upgraded > the firmware and client version of the NCD clients. > However, I can duplicate > this problem from a Citrix client on a PC. > > Has anyone seen this issue before? Can anyone > suggest anything else to look > at? > > Thanks, > > Tony > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: > Click Here[1] > > > --- Links --- > 1 'http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENUS/c152??PI=44364' > > > > =================================== > This weeks Sponsor: > triCerat, Inc > ScrewDrivers fxp: Self Configuring Printer Driver > with Bandwidth Control > Learn more at: > http://www.tricerat.com/?page=products&product=sdfxp > > =================================== > For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or > set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. > > http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com =================================== This weeks Sponsor: triCerat, Inc ScrewDrivers fxp: Self Configuring Printer Driver with Bandwidth Control Learn more at: http://www.tricerat.com/?page=products&product=sdfxp =================================== For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm