Performance-Problem in the morning

[Hans Hilper]

Hi everybody,

we have vmware workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on a linux host, running
suse 9.1. There is a 2.8 GHz cpu and 1 gigabyte ram.

Windows 2000 Server is running inside a vm and is assigned 768 MB of
ram.On this windows server we have terminal server servicing a couple
of customers that connect from remote.

The problem is now the first customer that connects. It takes the
application almost 15 minutes to initialise and present a login screen.
This process used to take only a second or so. After the first login
everything performs to our satisfaction. Only a small fraction of the
memory is used and cpu-usage is low. I am looking for sugestions on
what to do to improve the login time for the first user in the morning.

best regards
Hans

[Chris Grant]

Do you have any remote profiles setup...

You could try running FileMon (http:\www.sysinternals.com) by logging in directly to see what files are being accessed.


Hope this helps
Chris

Post by Hans Hilper
Hi everybody,
we have vmware workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on a linux host, running
suse 9.1. There is a 2.8 GHz cpu and 1 gigabyte ram.
Windows 2000 Server is running inside a vm and is assigned 768 MB of
ram.On this windows server we have terminal server servicing a couple
of customers that connect from remote.
The problem is now the first customer that connects. It takes the
application almost 15 minutes to initialise and present a login screen.
This process used to take only a second or so. After the first login
everything performs to our satisfaction. Only a small fraction of the
memory is used and cpu-usage is low. I am looking for sugestions on
what to do to improve the login time for the first user in the morning.
best regards
Hans

[Hans Hilper]

Thanks Chris,

I don't know how the windows server is used exactly. We provide the
vmware to the customer and he is in charge of the windows server
installed. I will try FileMon after vacation. The strange thing is,
when restarting vmware and the guest os, there is no speed problem, but
after 2 or 3 days it get's very slow in the morning.

Thanks
Hans

Post by Chris Grant
Do you have any remote profiles setup...
You could try running FileMon (http:\www.sysinternals.com) by logging
in directly to see what files are being accessed.
Hope this helps
Chris

Post by Hans Hilper
Hi everybody,
we have vmware workstation 4.5.2 build 8848 on a linux host, running
suse 9.1. There is a 2.8 GHz cpu and 1 gigabyte ram.
Windows 2000 Server is running inside a vm and is assigned 768 MB of
ram.On this windows server we have terminal server servicing a
couple of customers that connect from remote.
The problem is now the first customer that connects. It takes the
application almost 15 minutes to initialise and present a login
screen. This process used to take only a second or so. After the
first login everything performs to our satisfaction. Only a small
fraction of the memory is used and cpu-usage is low. I am looking
for sugestions on what to do to improve the login time for the
first user in the morning.
best regards
Hans