[THIN] Re: Hardware for Citrix Servers

  • From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:59:20 -0000

The pagefile is being used pre-emptively at (practically) all times.

All other things being equal, there's precious little you can do about
this.

As to the size and whether you should create another, to fit the more
normal RAM + 1/2 (or greater) I'd consider whether you ever expect to
use it fully.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
> Sent: 20 February 2008 16:42
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Hardware for Citrix Servers
> 
> 
> I don't think the size of the active page file is meaningful 
> in Windows as it appears to be constantly in use even when 
> there is plenty of physical RAM available. 
> 
> Tim and others can explain why that is, but it is not a good 
> measure of available resources to users....
> 
>  
> Steve Greenberg
> Thin Client Computing
> 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453
> Scottsdale, AZ 85266
> (602) 432-8649
> www.thinclient.net
> steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Minero, 
> Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:01 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Hardware for Citrix Servers
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> On my current servers, Dell PowerEdge 2850 Duals, 4 GB RAM, 
> at 25 users I can see the page file usage at 3.14 GB.
> I have one 4GB page file, which is the limit on Windows 2003 Standard.
> Is the page file being used before the 4 GB of RAM?
> Should I add another 4GB page file?  Will it help?
> 
> _________________________
> Hector Minero
> NSWCDD Code K55
> Ph: 540.653.8859
> Email: hector.minero@xxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jez
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:28 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Hardware for Citrix Servers
> 
> 
> Don't speculate - test it and see what works for your users. 
> You may get 75/box, you may only get 30 - it depends on how 
> they use the apps and on what their expectations are as much 
> as anything else.
> 
> On Feb 15, 2008 9:44 PM, Chad Schneider (IT) 
> <Chad.M.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I would hope to get 50 users, but with this set of apps., 
> depending on
> 
> > usage, I would not COUNT on 50.
> >
> >
> > IE, MS Office 2003, Adobe Acrobat Professional, MS Project.
> >
> > IE is @ 50MB/user, Word is @ 50MB/user, Acrobat READER is @ 25MB.  
> > That is per user, not including TS/Citrix/OS overhead per 
> user, simply
> 
> > opening the application, not working in it.



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