Target Skills:

By the end of this module you will be able to...

  • Tune your server to increase/decrease performance.

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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