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kellyrmartin




Joined: Mar 29, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:44 pm
Post subject: 7000+ pages/sec and lower cpu usage
I know this may sound old school for you guys but I just found myself in the position of watching over a small network that uses thin clients and terminal services from windows server 2003 standard. At peak times there are about 30 users hitting office 2007 and accpacc with a massive database. Needless to say everyone starts complaining during those time that their apps seem very very slow and I have found a huge amount of pages per second. I have also noticed that the cpu usage stays around 5-10% and the clients mousing and screen refresh seem fine. For that reason I suspect the 4G ram is the issue, but that is max for server standard.

My plan to aleviate the issue is to upgrade the server to 2003 enterprise and then upgrade it to 32 gigs of ram but I just wanted to send out a feeler to make sure I was on the right track.

Any help would be much appreciated. thanks
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natem




Joined: May 27, 2007
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:24 pm
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I think you're on the right track.

Do what you can to speed up the hard disk. I run 'JKDefrag' nightly to keep our fragmentation as low as possible. It's free and does more than the standard Windows defrag, but uses the same API's. You can run their command line version from Scheduled Tasks.

You probably already know, but keep an eye on your virtual memory. If you run out of memory completely it will blue screen. You can use Task Manager to get a quick idea of this. The Systernal tools can give you more details. Increase the size of your virtual memory in System Properties/Advanced. Virtual memory is slow but at least it won't crash.

(I actually have around 100 users on systems with 8GB, dual quad core, but your application load must be pretty high.)
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