[THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
- From: Christopher Wilson <christofire@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:35:27 -0600
Wow, that's a big deal since AppSense is supposed to add like 30% more
capacity.
I've starting seeing slowness now that my new farm is more heavily loaded.
I'll have to give this a look as well.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Andy Friar <Andy.Friar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks James,
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> I’ll disable PM in the short term and do some further checks
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> Rgds
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> Andy
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *James Scanlon
> *Sent:* 06 January 2011 16:40
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> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
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> We narrowed it down to a combination of Appsense *Performance Manager* and
> *Environment Manager*
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> With PM disabled the server is snappy, quick, and as we would expect
> (though EM adds around 10-15 seconds to the logon as per the rules we have
> defined)
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> We are in the process of discussing with Appsense and other support avenues
> as to where the exact issue lies
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> As far as we are concerned however the crisis is averted, all production
> systems have PM disabled, all servers are getting over 70 users without
> missing a beat
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> Individual load tests push the servers to 100 users (so far) without
> issue...(re enabling PM and the server is game over at 45-50 users)
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> James :)
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Landin, Mark
> *Sent:* 06 January 2011 15:42
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
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> James Scanlon just had a very similar, if not exactly the same, problem
> with his systems and he finally fingered Appsense as the culprit. I suggest
> reviewing the list archives for his messages in the November / December
> timeframe for details. I’ll copy his final response on 12/13:
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> “We have troubleshooted this to APPSENSE. When all three products (AM, EM
> And PM are enabled) the server doubles users logons from 14s to around 30,
> and progressivly gets worse until the server completely crashes around 45
> users.
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> Stopping any of the three services of appsense relieves the issue.
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> Stopping appsense completely sees the server behave as we would expect sub
> 15second logons, for over 100 users, instant launching of programs.
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> Further investigation continues and will update the list when we have more
> info...
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> Thanks to all for your input.
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> J
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> “
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> You may wish to experiment with disabling Appsense in your environment to
> see if it’s the culprit in your case.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Andy Friar
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:10 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
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> I’m have a problem with the following Windows 2008 SP2 Enterprise x64
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> XenApp 5 Enterprise R01
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> Boxes are Dell blade 8 core + HT 49Gb RAM
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> Local manadatory profiles with full Appsense suite utilising EM +
> Personalisation service.
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> Desktop / My Documents / Favourites redirected to a Netapp Filer running
> CIFS.
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> The more users that come onto the box the slower the machine gets.
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> @ 0-45 users the box is responsive, logon times are good but it still has
> this apparent lag when accessing local apps
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> @ 50 the lag is getting worse sometimes freezes but always comes back.
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> @ 60 logon times are substantial, just selecting a cell in excel can take
> 30+ seconds.
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> Performance counters seem fine
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> 14% processor time
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> 25k context switches / sec no massive jumps
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> 0 Processor queue length
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> 99% disk idle
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> 0 disk queue length
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> 15-20k threads
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> 0 Redirector\Current Commands
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> The only large one is system calls / sec which can be anywhere from 80k to
> 1.5m, I’ve cut down the apps but system calls are still high.
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> To me the server feels as if it has no cpu left, but given the resources
> free it looks more like an i/o problem, I’ve tuned the smb with the
> following
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters]
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> "MaxWorkItems"=dword:00002000
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> "MaxMpxCt"=dword:00000800 (subsequently has
> been changed to match the Netapp)
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> "MaxRawWorkItems"=dword:00000200
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> "MaxFreeConnections"=dword:00000064
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> "MinFreeConnections"=dword:00000020
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanworkstation\Parameters]
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> "MaxCmds"=dword:00000800
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\Configuration Manager]
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> "RegistryLazyFlushInterval"=dword:0000003C
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> The NetApp filer has had cifs.max_mpx set to 1124 so I’ve subsequently
> changed the citrix servers to match this number rather than the 2048
> previously.
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> It’s running around 30%cpu 2000 io/sec 98% cache hit.
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> Any suggestions on where else I might look into what is causing the
> bottleneck?
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> Thanks
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> Andy
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