Unfortunately we still have a load of horrible apps that won't relinquish handles or profiles when users log out from our Citrix MPS4.5 farm. We are stuck in a 48-hourly reboot cycle - luckily, I have scripted the removal of hung profiles and this runs nicely via a startup script.
2009/10/19 Webster <[email protected]> > Sam, > > That was for way back when a lot of apps would not release memory properly > when run under Terminal Services/Citrix. It got so bad that Citrix actually > added the ability to schedule reboots of Citrix servers from within the mgmt > consoles. I still run into places who still believe that is necessary when > it rarely is needed anymore. That is provided you are running a modern > version of Citrix/Terminal Services. There are still a TON of places > running NT4 and MetaFrame 1.x. > > Webster > > *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] > *Subject:* RE: System Admin Checklists > > > > Wait... > > > > *Nightly:* > > - Backups > > (Next Applies to Terminal Server admins only) > > - Reboot each Citrix server. > - Delete all autocreated printers stuck. > - Clear out rogue local profiles. > - Backups > > > > Lol, reboot each Citrix server? Really? Never used Citrix. Looks like I > shouldn't either ;) > > > > > > -- "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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
