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I’ve recently stumbled upon using compact -S5 in our weekly Saturday compact program document.

Like most shops, we run Fixup on Fridays and then Compact on Saturdays on all databases.

We found that a couple of servers that have about 400GB worth of mailboxes were not finishing their compact jobs. The compact was taking somewhere in the range of 36 to 48 hours. We weren’t sure how long it was taking because we had to shut it down on Monday morning when people got into the office and starting trying to access their databases.

I found the -S switch which will compact only database which will only compact databases with more white space than you specify in the . Read the rest of this entry »

I was taking a look at this article at IBM.

I noticed that they added these variables to R6.5.x server:
NSF_DBCache_MaxEntries=4100
Server_pool_tasks=60
Server_max_concurrent_trans=60
Server_show_performance=1
Server_TransInfo_Range=9

and these notes.ini variables to 7.0x server:
NSF_DBCache_MaxEntries=4100
server_pool_tasks=60
server_max_concurrent_trans=60
server_show_performance=1
Server_TransInfo_Range=9
Cluster_replicators=3
FTUpdate_Idle_Time=25
Update_Idle_Time=25
EnableForcedFillOnFileExtend=1
NSF_DBCache_Max_Clean_Hold_Time=9999

Just wondering exactly what they do. It would have been nice if they would have explained the benefits of the performance improvement instead of just comparing the two versions of Domino.

I just want to mention that I love HP (and previously Compaq) servers. I love installing Windows 2003 with a Smart Start DVD and all of the HP Insight Management agents, the Windows drivers for the various systems components being installed when it’s all said and done.

I’ve been playing with the HP Systems Insight Management Console for the last few months. It’s a great tool and lots and lots of granular monitoring, patch and firmware deployment, etc.

I just realized this week that you could go to HP’s website and install what’s called a Proliant Support Pack.
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I’m sure that most admins have been using text files to generate IDs for a long time.

I haven’t.

I sat down to register 284 users this week. It was a new process to me, so I’m going to go through the list of steps here.
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I have been getting duplicate names in the Ambiguous Name dialogue box when addressing a message.

I’ve got my personal NAB, a local replica of our NAB, and a local dc.nsf on my machine. All of them are listed in the NAMES= line of my notes.ini.

I could not explain why the groups would appear this way. One group would have a mail domain and one group wouldn’t. One group would contain the members if you showed the member list, and one group looked like it was condensed (probably from the dc.nsf).

One of the guys on my team found this post.

We added our Domino domain name to the “Mail Domain” field in the group document and all was fixed, no problems when an Internet user send a message to the group, and no duplicate entries in the Ambiguous Name dialog box.