Yeah I don't set screen savers at all. On 10/2/09, Craig Gauss <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah that is one thing the VM best practices guide showed. > > Even with blank ones ours seem to lag if they are sitting there for a > long time on the screen saver > > > Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer > Riverview Hospital Association > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Don Ely [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:35 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: VMware View > > > Screen savers in VM's are bad... Eat processors... Set them to blank > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Craig Gauss <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We have had some reports of "slow performance." I was wondering > about the RAM our consultant had us set them at 512 but that seems low > to me. Especially with VMs because they will only use it when it needs > it. > > Haha, dont think it is just your users. Ours complain about > some things like that as well. > > I did shut off the page file on one and it sure seems to come > back from the screen saver a lot quicker. > > > Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer > Riverview Hospital Association > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:03 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: VMware View > > > Give 'em as much memory as possible. Our database apps > (especially those that have a lot of screen redrawing for long lists of > numbers) run at a crawl without 4GB of RAM, even though they are only XP > 32-bit machines. Don't know whether it is just our thin clients or not, > but don't expect the performance of animated mouse pointers and the like > to be up to much (probably only our users would complain about such a > thing, however). If you are going to be using multiple screens, we have > found SplitView to be very handy. > > > 2009/10/2 Craig Gauss <[email protected]> > > > Just looking to see if anyone else out there is running > View and if they > have come up with any sort of best practices when it > comes to Windows > workstations. We followed Vmware's best practice guide > but I am > wondering if anyone else has found some good things that > worked for > them. I did read on one forum that some users have > found it better to > set the VMs with no page file. > > Anyone? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a > resource hog! ~ > ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you > put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I > am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > could provoke such a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > <http://raythestray.blogspot.com/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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