[THIN] Re: Pagefile usage

  • From: Michel Roth <mrdizzz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:28:04 +0200

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?
> >
> >
>

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