MSTSC becomes resource hog

[Guest Rich Raffenetti]

I have a Windows XP (SP2) Tablet Edition on a Fuijitsu T4010 in my office on

which I keep RDP sessions open to 4-5 servers. I use RDP 6.

 

Recently I have traced some excessive resource usage to the mstsc.exe

program using task manager.

 

One time one of the instances of mstsc.exe was using 600 MB of the PC's

memory. I have observed this behavior at other prior times as well. I

applied 907572.

 

After the 907572 patch one instance had accumulated a million page faults in

about a day elapsed time! I have not seen this before and believe it may be

related to the patch.

 

A cure is to terminate the problem session with task manager and then

reconnect to the session. The new mstsc.exe instance is normal - at least

at the outset.

 

Obviously there is a bug of some kind. Does anyone also see this problem?

Googling for "page faults" and mstsc was not much help.

[Guest sen_ismail@web.de]

Re: MSTSC becomes resource hog

 

On Oct 5, 4:59 pm, "Rich Raffenetti" <rich@raffenetti_takethisout.com>

wrote:

> I have a Windows XP (SP2) Tablet Edition on a Fuijitsu T4010 in my office on

> which I keep RDP sessions open to 4-5 servers. I use RDP 6.

>

> Recently I have traced some excessive resource usage to the mstsc.exe

> program using task manager.

>

> One time one of the instances of mstsc.exe was using 600 MB of the PC's

> memory. I have observed this behavior at other prior times as well. I

> applied 907572.

>

> After the 907572 patch one instance had accumulated a million page faults in

> about a day elapsed time! I have not seen this before and believe it may be

> related to the patch.

>

> A cure is to terminate the problem session with task manager and then

> reconnect to the session. The new mstsc.exe instance is normal - at least

> at the outset.

>

> Obviously there is a bug of some kind. Does anyone also see this problem?

> Googling for "page faults" and mstsc was not much help.

 

Hi,

 

this is maybe a BUG with RDP 6.0 > KB907572 is not for RDP 6.0

09-Sep-2005 5.1.2600.2756 Mstscax.dll > RDP 5.1 / RDP 5.2

 

cheers,

Ismail