Client slowdown towards the end of the day?

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Okay, maybe this has something to do with the gradual decline of sugar/caffein levels in the bloodstream during a workday, but I’ve noticed an increase of swap disk use and decrease in response time of my Notes client towards the end of the workday. A co-worker has noticed the same thing as well. We’re using P3-700/866 machines with either XP Pro or 2K Pro with 256 Mb RAM (in short, similarly equipped), and I’m wondering if this is some client-side memory leak issue with 6.0.

Either that, or our workstations need skim lattes at 3:30PM.

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Subject: Client slowdown towards the end of the day?..

Billy, can you provide a little more information? What processes seem to be taken up the majority of cpu cycles? DO you have any background agents kicking in or possibly other services or anti-virus software running? It sounds like some background task/service is kicking in and causing the performance degradation…

Mike

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Subject: RE: Client slowdown towards the end of the day?..

Hi Mike,

To the best of my knowledge, we have no background agents running on any applications on the server (a P3-450/Win2K Server SP3 desktop serving as an R6 testbed for five users), and Trend ScanMail isn’t set to update its patterns automatically.

On the other hand, I’ve yet to take any hourly readings on CPU and processor usage on my workstation - I thought about it, and then I had to do my usual firefighting. :wink:

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Subject: RE: Client slowdown towards the end of the day?..

HI Billy, it might be worth looking at taskmgr to figure out which processes are consuming the most cpu cycles. In a similar problem with R5 we found that the Oracle ERP app which used a lot of java and a bad JVM was the culprit. Needless to say the company I was consulting for ended up throwing out the Oracle’s ERP app and going to a AS/400 green screen application :slight_smile:

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Subject: RE: Client slowdown towards the end of the day?..

I have a number of PCs that never get shut down and have ND6 clients running for days on end. I haven’t observed any slowdown. It would be worth looking at what other processes are running. Also look at Task manager to see what’s using the cpu.