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How does the SMS Client affect servers?

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by frankp

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My main concern is the Negative effects the SMS Client has on server performance. I am not speaking of SMS site servers. I'm just concerned for all my other servers running the client Everything seems to be running fine. We have an excellent record of system uptime. I'd hate to have SMS cause memory leaks or whatnot on our servers. Just a little scared....

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by rkelly

The main performance issues I have found are on servers with anti virus software installed.

When you install the SMS client you get a fair number of log files created and updated. Previous to my installation I scanned All Files on all my servers,this wasn't too bad when it was just user data being accessed and core operating system files; however I use SMS extensively and it causes a large number of log files to be accessed regularly on my servers, which increased the CPU time of the AV Scanner to about 40%.

I have the client installed on all the servers in my organisation (only about 10 across 2 sites) and other than the above I get no major issues - just make sure that you DO NOT schedule software and hardware inventory during working hours if at all possible, these also run on your servers and are disk/cpu intensive.

by frankp

Thank you very much. I have a similiar setup. You saved me a lot of research.

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