After the installation of SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 SR1 Cumulative Update 8, you see in the Task Manager a higher (RAM) memory consumption on the application server by two Java.exe processes.
You also encounter that the system might be slower then before the Cumulative Update 8 installation.

 

Solution: Cumulative Update 9 for SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 SR1

It is planned to start these two processes with less memory consumption. 
This will be introduced with the Cumulative Update 9 for SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 SR1. For the latest update information, please refer to the following article:

• Cumulative Updates for SDL Trados Studio 2017 SR1

Workaround: Reduce default memory consumption 

Note: These changes need to be applied on the application server where SDL Trados GroupShare is installed.

1. Open the Registry editor
2. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SDL Translation Service\Parameters\
3. Double-click on the right-hand side on the string/key: AppParameters
4. Add the following parameters at the beginning: -XX:NewRatio=7 -Xmx1024m
5. Click OK to close the dialog.
6. The argument/parameter line should be looking like the following:

   -XX:NewRatio=7 -Xmx1024m -jar "C:\Program Files\SDL\SDL Server\Translation Service\gs-translation-service.jar" --spring.profiles.active=std --logging.file="C:\ProgramData\SDL\Service\Logs\gs-translation-service.log" --server.port=41258 --gs.proxy.location=[serverName]

7. Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SDL Feedback Service\Parameters\
8. Double-click on the right-hand side on the string/key: AppParameters
9. Add the following parameters at the beginning: -XX:NewRatio=7 -Xmx1024m
10. Click OK to close the dialog.
11. The argument/parameter line should be looking like the following:

    -XX:NewRatio=7 -Xmx1024m -jar "C:\Program Files\SDL\SDL Server\Feedback Service\gs-feedback-service.jar" --spring.profiles.active=std --logging.file="C:\ProgramData\SDL\Service\Logs\gs-feedback-service.log" --server.port=41259 --gs.proxy.location=[serverName] --gs-management-service.ribbon.listOfServers=serverName.
    

12. After the changes ensure to restart all the SDL Trados GroupShare Services. Details can also be found here: How to restart the SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 Services

With the Cumulative Update 8 for SDL Trados GroupShare 2017 SR1 two new services were introduced. The SDL Feedback service and the SDL Translation Service.
These two new services by default consume by default 1-2 GB RAM each.