Hello there,
Regarding Appsense ... we havent moved to 8 yet and are still testing it.
Im glad i saw this thread.
We found that EM was the cause of most of out version 7 issues.
Do you still get issues if you have just the Agents but no configs ?
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Friar" <Andy.Friar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:26 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
Sorry for the delay getting back, man flu has taken its toll on me.
Bearing in mind this is on a server previously mentioned but with PM
disabled @ around 60users (Desktops)
With Process\Page Faults/sec the worst offenders are
Iexplore max @ 225k average 2k
System, max @ 120k, average 5k
EMAgentAssist max @ 40k average of 400
Spoolsv max @ 22k average 2.5k
These are very selective and over a small time window though.
Redirector\Current Commands is still at 0 though,
Going back to Appsense, PM was disabled on Thursday.
Monday and Tuesday showed the biggest load with 80 concurrent desktops
with no lag, or delays. Logon's are still quick and the server feeling
responsive.
The call has been logged with Appsense, hopefully they can find the cause
of this.
Appsense Agents were upto date as of Jan4th update as this had numerous EM
fixes.
Rgds
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 07 January 2011 00:19
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
Hi Andy,
Forgot about that AppSense issue James is having.
I would only ever expect to see Redirector\Current Commands at 0 in a
Novell environment, or in very quiet times. If the systems are using SMB
for file services, that value should be much higher.
With the page faults per second, add the Process\Page Faults/sec counter
for ALL processes NOT the _Total. There will be a lot here on a busy
server with lots of users. Once added, patiently scroll through them and
check the values, don't focus on the graph. I had one the other day where
RTVSCAN.exe (the realtime scan engine from Symantec) was doing tens of
thousands of page faults per second, due to the fact that the customer had
not setup any exclusions as per best practice. This was causing a
performance hit as more users were logging in. Maybe checkout the AppSense
processes. There is also a registy value you can add that will change the
instance # to a PID, so you can match the process back to a user, and then
you can go and interview users to find out what they are doing. I've seen
Excel and Outlook plugins causing issues too.
Do you use HP print drivers? Search the
"%SystemRoot%\System32\spool\drivers" folder for hpzbdi64.msi on 64-bit
systems. This can cause major pauses. I've got a script that will clean
this up. Let me know and I'll send it to you.
Can you let us know if AppSense is the issue, as I'm doing a Performance
Manager rollout next week, and I don't want any surprises?
Cheers,
Jeremy.
At 60 you'll see lag in excel or outlook, differing amount of lag but
it's very hard to pinpoint at what user level lag starts.
Redirector\Current Commands is 0, not sure if it's reporting properly
as it's never moved.
%Page File Usage is 0
Pages/second range from 0->2500 averaging 175 over default time window
Disabling Trend Serverprotect made no appreciable difference in
performance.
Print Drivers are up for discussion though, all past a few runs of
stressprint but real word some are crashing the citrix print manager
service. - needs identifying.
I've got one of the hotfixes from that list which updates the smbv1
driver applying tonight KB981964 (superb list of hotfixes btw)
Thanks for the input
Andy
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeremy (J House Consulting)
Sent: 06 January 2011 15:56
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
Hi Andy,
Is the lag/pause random or consistent. Ie. At 60 users logged in, will
you always see a lag selecting a cell in Excel?
What are your Redirector\Current Commands sitting at, as the value
below is missing?
I would also be checking %Page File Usage and Memory:Pages/Second
counter.
There could be a process paging big time.
Known issues could be AV realtime scanning, Print Drivers, SMB V1.0
tuning.
Carl posted a heap of relevant hotfixes a couple of months ago.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andy Friar
Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2011 11:10 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] XenApp 5 - 2008 x64 Slow
I'm have a problem with the following Windows 2008 SP2 Enterprise x64
XenApp 5 Enterprise R01
Boxes are Dell blade 8 core + HT 49Gb RAM Local manadatory profiles
with full Appsense suite utilising EM + Personalisation service.
Desktop / My Documents / Favourites redirected to a Netapp Filer
running CIFS.
The more users that come onto the box the slower the machine gets.
@ 0-45 users the box is responsive, logon times are good but it still
has this apparent lag when accessing local apps @ 50 the lag is
getting worse sometimes freezes but always comes back.
@ 60 logon times are substantial, just selecting a cell in excel can
take
30+ seconds.
Performance counters seem fine
14% processor time
25k context switches / sec no massive jumps
0 Processor queue length
99% disk idle
0 disk queue length
15-20k threads
0 Redirector\Current Commands
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.
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
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Par
ameters]
"MaxWorkItems"=dword:00002000
"MaxMpxCt"=dword:00000800 (subsequently
has been changed to match the Netapp)
"MaxRawWorkItems"=dword:00000200
"MaxFreeConnections"=dword:00000064
"MinFreeConnections"=dword:00000020
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanworkstatio
n\Parameters]
"MaxCmds"=dword:00000800
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Configuration Manager]
"RegistryLazyFlushInterval"=dword:0000003C
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.
It's running around 30%cpu 2000 io/sec 98% cache hit.
Any suggestions on where else I might look into what is causing the
bottleneck?
Thanks
Andy
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