Nice tip Jeff! Good stuff Bernd! Thanks. Michel Roth 2005/10/18, Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>: > > 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 PS4.0Enterprise, 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 > > 4.0 yet 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? > > > > >