I should add: used applications include IBM's Client Access V5R2, office XP (very heavily used) and Lotus Notes 6 as a mail client. Especially Office and Notes seem to be hungry for memory (Notes easily reaches 60-70 MB per user) Erik Blom > Hi, > > I have a client with 50 users and 2 Metaframe XPa servers on windows 2000 > standard SP4. Both servers have 4 GB RAM which is for 75% (3 GB) consumed > in the afternoon of a typical day. > > This client wants to optimize his memory usage so that when one servers > would die, the other one would be able to sustain the load. I am in the > process of evaluating RTOsoft's Tscale and Aurema's Armtech. At this point > I looked at Armtech which I think only gives me the possibility to put > quota on users CPU and memory usage. What I am looking for really is > something that does pure out-of-the-box tuning so that my server consumes > less memory (be it virtual or real memory) without putting quota on users > server usage. > > Questions: > 1. is this possible? (ie. pure application optimization without the need > to enforce quota) > 2. can this be done by one of these two products? If not, is there a > product that I don't yet know about? > > Thanks a lot for your answers, > > Erik Blom > system engineer > ******************************************************** > This weeks sponsor Emergent Online. > Emergent OnLine is the leading server-based computing consulting > integration firm in the nation. Emergent OnLine delivers expert > consulting services you can depend on. > http://www.go-eol.com > ********************************************************** > Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: > http://thin.net/links.cfm > *********************************************************** > For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or > set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: > http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm > > > ******************************************************** This weeks sponsor Emergent Online. Emergent OnLine is the leading server-based computing consulting integration firm in the nation. Emergent OnLine delivers expert consulting services you can depend on. http://www.go-eol.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm