[THIN] Re: Interesting Windows 2000 problem
- From: "Gary Holbrook" <gholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:22:52 -0500
Rick,
Thanks for the insight! Oddly enough, CorelDraw has not crashed in the last
two days. Since I stopped folder redirection for the two users who use
CorelDraw a lot, as a matter of fact. If it doesn't crash today, I'm going
to become quite suspicious of it!
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mack, Rick" <RMack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:48 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting Windows 2000 problem
> Hi Gary,
>
> I've had problems with Corel Draw as well, albeit not version 11. There
was
> some legacy code that hammers coreldraw.ini, with single byte i/o requests
> that really strain the network. In a school where you've got a number of
> students starting up coreldraw at the same time, the resultant network
> traffic is awesome.
>
> regards,
>
> Rick
>
> Ulrich Mack
> rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Volante Systems
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> Australia
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Holbrook [mailto:gholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 23:45
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting Windows 2000 problem
>
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. We have tuned the fileserver, but have not
run
> filemon on the terminal server yet, which may yield some interesting
> results. One particular application is crashing before every occurance of
> the problem (CorelDraw 11). CorelDraw is also very dependent on the
> Application Data folder, which is on a network share. I'm beginning to
> wonder if CD is leaving network connections open.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mack, Rick" <RMack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:46 PM
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting Windows 2000 problem
>
>
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > Sounds like you might have an application or applications hammering the
> > network via your redirected folders. The win2k default for the size of
the
> > network I/O request queue (maxmpxct, maxworkitems etc) is pitiful. Once
> the
> > request queue is filled, all i/o on the server will just appear to hang.
> >
> > The folder redirection is one possibility why this is happening. The
fixes
> > include tuning the file server to improve it's i/o (if possible, eg
> > reconfigure disks, tune anti-virus software), increasing the maxmpxct
and
> > maxworkitems on the fileserver, and as a last resort, using filemon
> > (www.sysinternals.com) to find out which application or redirected
folder
> is
> > causing the problem and maybe leaving it attached to the user's roaming
> > profile.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > Ulrich Mack
> > rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Volante Systems
> > 18 Heussler Terrace
> > Milton 4064, Queensland
> > Australia
> > tel +61 7 32467777
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Holbrook [mailto:gholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:22
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Interesting Windows 2000 problem
> >
> >
> > Good morning!
> >
> > I've got an interesting problem with Windows 2000 that one of you may
have
> > dealt with. I'm in a Windows 2000 environment, including to domain
> > controllers\file servers and 5 Citrix terminal servers. We are using
> group
> > policy and folder redirection to changed the users' appdata, favorites,
> and
> > My Documents to the u: drive (network mapped).
> >
> > Sometimes, without any obvious provocation, one of the terminal servers
> > comes to a screeching halt. It doesn't blue-screen or anything, but its
> > performance becomes so poor that it appears locked up. It isn't though,
> and
> > if I go to the file server and manage the server, go to shared folders,
> and
> > then start deleting sessions from the terminal server in question, it
will
> > suddenly spring back to life. It's also noteworthy that while it's
> "frozen"
> > CPU usage drops to 0.
> >
> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gary
> >
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