Target
Skills:
By the end of this module
you will be able to...
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Tune your server to increase/decrease
performance.
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Tuning Your Server
Process
Follow the general configuration process from
the Configuration Overview Section. Particularly,
1) Identify the limiting factors on messaging
performance
Hardware (CPU, RAM, Disk, Network)
Message Server Configuration (Services and
set up of message store)
Directory Server usage
Other applications running on the server
2) Identify what you can do about it
(what you can change) in tech
pubs
3) Make sure your messaging server is doing
nothing extraneous
Content
Point user to issues discussed in tech pubs
Number of Users per Disk
Configuration of POP and IMAP Services
Configuration of SMTP Services
Configuration of Logging Services
Size of Mailboxes
Distribution of the Store and Queue Directories
MTA Thread Settings
Applications Co-Resident with the Messaging Server
Activity of the Administration Server
Activity of the Directory Server
Location of the Messaging Server and the Directory Server
Number of Address Lookups per Message
Ratio of Delivery to Outbound Sends
Use of RAID Technology
Memory, Disk, and CPU Requirements
Interactions
1) Limit one of the settings above (such as
the number of threads for the smtp processes), send a message and notice
the slow down in performance.
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