[THIN] Re: Pagefile usage
- From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:12:26 -0400
Brian Madden has a podcast on memory optimizations. RTOSoft also released a
free front end to the citrix memory optimizations. this may help you track
down problems.
http://www.rtosoft.com/products/Optimization_Console/Optimization_Console.html
Jeff
On 10/18/05, Bernd Harzog <berndh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There are certain applications and DLLs that are incompatible with this
> form of memory optimization. There are lots of safeguards built into both
> the stuff in CPS 4.0 and in TScale to ferret 99% of those out. If one
> slips through it will stop your application from working properly, so you
> will find out pretty quickly if you have a problem or not. Just give it a
> try, and if there is a problem turn off the memory optimization.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd Harzog
>
> CEO
>
> Applications Performance Management Experts
>
> www.apmexperts.com <http://www.apmexperts.com/>
>
> bernd.harzog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 770-475-4249
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]*On
> Behalf Of *Evan Mann
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:37 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Pagefile usage
>
> Thanks. I think I found the potential culprits. I have PS4.0 Enterprise,
> so I guess I'll give memory management a try. Afew people responded to my
> post the other day that it caused some problems and had to turn it off.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Bernd Harzog
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:22 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Pagefile usage
>
> Hi Evan,
>
> Since no one else answered your question, I will try. Go get Process
> Explorer (free) from Sysinternals. Configure the lower pane to show DLLs,
> and to highlight relocated DLLs. Now go browse (in the upper pane) through
> the frequently used applications on your server. When you select a process
> in the upper pane, the DLLs loaded by that process will show up in the lower
> pane. Any DLL that is highlighted in yellow (relocated) will contribute to
> excessive page file usage since there is a copy of the DLL in memory AND in
> the page file for each instance of the program that calls that DLL. In other
> words if you have an application that has 20 DLLs in yellow and 50 users you
> have 1000 copies of that DLL in memory AND in the page file.
>
> If this the case for you and you are running CPS 4.0, turn on the memory
> management feature that Citrix licensed from RTO. If you are not on 4.0yet
> contact RTO for an evaluation of TScale.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd Harzog
>
> CEO
>
> Applications Performance Management Experts
>
> www.apmexperts.com <http://www.apmexperts.com/>
>
> bernd.harzog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 770-475-4249
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]*On
> Behalf Of *Evan Mann
> *Sent:* Monday, October 17, 2005 3:50 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Pagefile usage
>
> 4 gigs of RAM, 2003 SP1, PS4.0, Dual Xeon 3.6ghz processors and around 50
> users logged in.
>
> Physical free memory is 1.9gigs, and pagefile usage is 3gigs. Is that
> normal?
>
>
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