CHAPTER 16Tuning and Optimizations

This section suggests optimizations that can increase the performance of XenApp. Many of the recommendations are from Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. Make sure that you read the articles from Microsoft to better understand ramifications and expected results from any tuning you perform on the systems.

DISK OPTIMIZATIONS

Several registry settings can be modified to increase disk performance and throughput. Enhancements include disabling disk caching, increasing input/output (I/O) locks, and disabling last file access updates.

I/O Locks

The registry setting IoPageLockLimit specifies the limit of the number of bytes that can be locked for I/O operations. Because random access memory (RAM) is being sacrificed ...

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