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Sharing CPU resources On Terminal Servers

Wednesday, 27 December 2006 by Michel Roth

John Kellet has published a small article on how you can tackle the problem of overzealous applications on Terminal Servers: "When multiple users are sharing system hardware such as on a Terminal/Citrix server there is always a potential issue of one user hogging all the CPU resources. If you are looking at task manager and seeing higher than expected CPU usage then you may be experiencing this problem. In this article I describe the CPU optimization option available in Citrix Presentation Server 4 and other options that are available to you."

"Although it�s stating the obvious, when you experience higher than expected CPU then first of all you should establish what or who is causing the problem. If it�s one paticular user doing something they shouldn�t be (such as playing games) then this can be stopped fairly quickly. If it�s not work related then you should also ensure that this user or any others can�t do this again using the methods available such as group policy, NTFS permissions or simply removing the application they were using if not required."

Read the article here.