From: Divya Bhagavan[MSFT] on
Hi,

Please forward your request to microsoft.public.windows.server.general.

Thanks
Divya

"Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message
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>I have a small 3ghz Quad Core 2003 server running as a Terminal Server.
>
> For standard office applications it's fine, no problems with
> performance. The system has 4GB ram, never seems to use more than 1GB
> and the CPU load shows about 15% across all cores at peak times,
> normally about 15% on core 1 and 2-8% on the other cores. Typically
> there are 1-5 users connected at any given time.
>
> Users connect remotely across the internet via Business DSL connections
> that are rated for 3mbps/3mbps and testing shows that they get that
> up/down almost always.
>
> The server is sitting on a 10mbps fiber connection (behind a firewall).
>
> We've had issues with some users running a real-time mapping program
> that shows live updates for truck locations - it performs very slowly,
> screen updates are terrible for the maps, but their MS Office apps
> update fine (when not running the mapping application). The only
> performance hit is when using the mapping application - CPU load still
> runs under 15% and memory doesn't increase, drive queue's don't
> increase... So it appears to be the large screen area update and the
> fact that the maps update in real-time faster than the screens can
> redraw.
>
> I've always been under the impression that TS was not something anyone
> would want to run graphics apps on, but I wanted to check and see if
> anyone has a performance suggestion that I might not be aware of.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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