Thanks Rick.
I've been way down the printer driver route with no evidence that it's the
cause of the trouble. The print spooler behaves nicely and we use almost
exclusively native MS drivers anyway.
I have licenses I can use for a new farm (the public sector in the UK
would rather buy new licenses instead of keeping up subs advantage) so a new
farm isn't much of a problem to do.
-----Original Message-----
*From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]*On
Behalf Of *Rick Mack
*Sent:* 17 May 2007 12:47
*To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [THIN] Re: Taking a big downgrading step
Hi Angus,
I'm surprised Citrix couldn't help you resolve your issues, particularly
since there are some really good Citrix SEs in the UK. However before you
throw out your PS3 farm completely, would you be willing to give us some
details about your printer setup? Do you use network printers (and local
printer drivers) or are you using a third party printer driver solution?
As you probably know, the Stressprinters utility was introduced
to identify PS4 printing issues (dud drivers), but if you're running
the latest HP printer drivers then spooler instability and memory corruption
caused by the drivers could be taking out your PS3 IMA service and/or RPC
service. Try bouncing the spooler service to see what happens to the
unresponsive IMA service? If that works, then printer drivers have to be
high on your list of reasons for your problems.
As far as licensing goes, it's stating the obvious that XP and PS3 use
different licensing methodologies. If you upgraded your PS3 farm from XP
then the licenses are still present and you could technically just join your
XP servers to the PS3 farm. If you didn't upgrade then you'll need a new
farm/datastore. Having said that, I'd opt for a new farm (datastore)
regardless because the datastore structures are somewhat different and it
might cause new problems that you don't need if you're escaping existing
ones. It's not that hard to export/import published apps etc from one farm
to the other.
Anyway, good luck.
regards,
Rick
--
Ulrich Mack
Commander Australia
On 5/17/07, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've been struggling with a big problem on my main PS3 / W2K3 farm for
> a long time now. I've posted here a few times but never managed to get to
> the bottom of it. Basically, servers become unresponsive to ICA traffic,
> requiring a reboot. The server itself runs fine but Citrix sessions die, the
> IMA cannot be stopped or started etc etc.
>
> This has become such an issue for us, I'm planning to downgrade to MFXP
> which has always behaved impeccably on another of our farms. The question
> is, if I uninstall PS3 and install MFXP on a server for testing purposes,
> will I be able to join it to the existing PS3 farm, or will I have to create
> a new MFXP farm? PS4 is out of the question because of problems between it
> and our main app and HP terminals.
>
> Angus
>
