thread quantum configuration for terminal services environments

[Brianos]

Hi all,

I wanted to open discussion about what is the best performance setting
for windows 2000.

In Rick Dehlingers Citrix MF tuning.pdf guide, he concludes that the
Background Services option should be chosen based on the fact that all
processes and child threads will be given equal quantums.

I disagree with this on the basis that you are giving background
processes (defined as running in the background!) equal processor time
as foreground apps.

In the context of a TS/Citrix environment, 60 users on a farm server
are all running as foreground processes? I would have thought that
the network would be a bottleneck meaning that the only really
important background services i.e. processes looking after the ICA
virtual channel are more likely to be waiting on network rather than
cpu attention?

Also, the quantum table for win2k has changed significantly from NT4,
does anyony happen to have about there person, the new figures
affected by way of the performance setting in win2k?


Any comments appreciated...

 

[Rob Leitman \(MS\)]

You definitely want to give priority to foreground processes.

Rob