It seems that when our end-users do a lot of copying+pasting when using PowerPoint 07, Excel 07, or Word 07, it stores directly in the Office Clipboard (it stores up to 24 items), and this causes their VDI Workstation to freeze up. Essentially, their taskbar becomes inactive, but they can still (slowly) navigate through Windows Explorer. My current resolution is just to end the OFFLB.exe or Office application process (taskkill /PID ### /F) so they can continue with their work.
However, this is just one scenario of memory consumption that happens. This also occurs when using this free graphics viewer called irfanview to resize an image, or crop it, etc. Also happens when navigating through open windows in Windows Explorer.
I guess I would like recommendations on how to tackle this issue.
I thought it might have been a memory balloon issue as referenced in these two articles:
I guess it wasn't. So, I guess I'm rather clueless on how to tackle this issue since it could be a lot of things. Any tools or tips would be great :smileygrin:
Our production environment is not using VMWare View. However, we are using Virtual Center 2.5 and VDI.
We have about 40+ Windows XP VMs right now, with essentially the same template (VMware Virtual Platform):
CPU = Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5345 @ 2.33 Ghz
Memory = 512 MB of RAM
Total Physical Memory = 512.00 MB; Available Physical Memory = 117.37 MB; Total Virtual Memory = 2.00 GB; Available Virtual Memory = 1.96 GB; Page File Space = 1.22 GB; Page File = C:\pagefile.sys
HDD = 10 GB (VMware Virtual Disk SCSI Disk Device)
SCSI and RAID controllers = LSI Adapter, Ultra320 SCSI 2000 series, w/1020/1030
Display Adapter = VMware SVGA II
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers = Intel (r) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE IDE Controller, and Primary IDE Channel
NIC = VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
