[THIN] Re: Excel performance Issue
- From: Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:11:12 -0000
... but given its 2007 that'll be running x32 - so the memory "expansion"
could well be moot.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pat Coughlin
Sent: 23 November 2011 13:55
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Excel performance Issue
Look at X64 as well. The better memory footprint should provide a
benifit.
Pat Coughlin
Citrix Goon
On 11/23/11, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm working on a similar problem - finance working with 45MB spread
> sheets and complaining that the process is slow.
>
>
>
> However - while tests on the Citrix farm confirmed that calculations
> times are long, so did tests on a fat desktop, tests on a laptop,
> tests on a non-citrix server. We could get the calc time down to less
> than 3 minutes if we gave them a dedicated dual quad-core processor
> box, each. It's still a couple of days to month end, maybe that will
> happen. Fundamentally, it's a poorly coded spreadsheet.
>
>
>
> While it's true to say you could use the likes of AppSense to improve
> performance (e.g. to help keep the AppData local to the server), and
> optimise CPU & memory performance (at a far more granular level than
> you can with the "in-house" citrix stuff) it's not going to turn a
> sow's ear into a silk purse. Have you done some tests outside of a
> Citrix environment? Just local? What would you like to get the load
> time down to, what is it now?
>
>
>
> Have you considered moving from Office 2003? 2007 & 2010 have a range
> of performance improvements over 2003.
>
>
>
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *On Behalf Of *scanjam@xxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* 23 November 2011 07:43
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: [THIN] Re: Excel performance Issue
>
>
>
> We had / have a similar.issue for.our.Excel.users (and.only.in excel)
> and it was bad on Ica client 12 and unusable with the receiver. (ica
> 13) half of.finance are still not.running the standard image
because.of.this..
>
> We use.appsense EM for.profile.management however... Is there
> something.that we can.change in appsense Joe?
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Excel performance Issue
> Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 07:00
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> Are you using any profile management tools such as AppSense?
>
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>
> Joe
>
>
>
> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *On Behalf Of *Angela Smith
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:58 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Excel performance Issue
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have an interesting issue where some Excel power users are
> complaining about performance on my Windows 2003 XenApp 4.5 farm
> (x86). We are running Office 2003 and performance is very bad when
large XLS files are opened.
> Its not uncommon for a user to have 2 x Excel + MS Access programs
> open often using around 800Mb RAM. I did some tests with only 1 user
> on the server and Excel was very slow. User was using 700MB RAM but
> no CPU. The XLS file is on the same network as the XenApp server so
> there are no issues here (Gig networking).
>
> Server hardware
> 2 x Quad Core CPU
> 10Gb RAM
>
> Are there any tweaks I can perform to improve performance for Excel?
> I have a dedicated XenApp Server specifically for my 5 finance users
> so there is plenty of resources
>
> Thanks
> Ang
>
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