[THIN] Re: Registry Grows very fast on w2k servers
- From: "McAlister, Barry" <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:01:01 -0000
yes we had this too
but we were lucky we came across the solution quite quick
best to give plenty of disk space to the registry and to back it up as well
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angus Macdonald [SMTP:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 1:56 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Registry Grows very fast on w2k servers
>
>
> We had that trouble for a while as well. Once the user load exceeded about
> 20, all further login attempts would give a profile error message. Once we
> increased the max registry size to 120MB, all troubles went away. I
> suppose
> it makes sense - every user that logs in will add their own user.dat to
> the
> local registry so it can increase in size pretty quickly. I just wish the
> error message had been more useful - I could have saved about 3 days of my
> life and a good kilo of hair.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mack, Rick [mailto:RMack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 November 2002 21:38
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Registry Grows very fast on w2k servers
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I've seen this on NT 4.0 TSE systems.
>
> Check the size of the Software key \winnt\system32\config\software. After
> that check the size of the users' ntuser.dat files (\documents and
> settings\%username%\ntuser.dat).
>
> If your software hive is much over about 20-25 MB then you've got one of 2
> problems, either with HKCR\CLSID or with HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\Current Version\terminal Server\Install. The first key growth is a
> known
> but thankfully rare problem with program registration which may require a
> rebuild, and growth in the latter key is pretty easy to fix with some
> adjusted acces permissions.
>
> Anyway, check that stuff first and then we'll see where to go from there.
>
> regards,
>
> Rick
>
> Ulrich Mack
> rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Volante Systems
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> Australia
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoy, Jeff (ESC) [mailto:hoyj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:43
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Registry Grows very fast on w2k servers
>
>
>
> I Have had a small farm of 15 servers running Win 2k /SP2 and srp1 with MF
> XPe /FR2 in an active directory domain with group policies. The servers
> are
> Compaq 1850r's with dual processors and a gig of ram.
>
> The servers ran great up until I added FR2 the registry was about 60 megs
> now I keep getting messages that I need to increase the registry limit. I
> have increased it to 200 megs and it just keeps growing. I setup a new
> machine and it appears when I update to FR2 the server will go from 20 meg
> registry to a 90 meg registry and continue to grow.... Anyone else
> experience anything like this....
>
> Thanks in advance for any help..
>
> Jeff
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