| Doug Allbright 2002-10-05, 8:28 pm |
| Forrest
You might try rehoming half the public folders to the
other Exchange server. This may help performance, but I
can't promise that it will. However if rehoming the
folders to the other server does not help you can re-home
them back again.
Since you stated you only have 50 users thus aprox 50
mailboxes the machine handling just the priv.edb database
could handle a much bigger load. Good luck
Doug
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a performance question regarding public folders
containing
>contacts. I have developed a custom contacts "database"
that runs on
>exchange 5.5 sp4 with outlook 2002 sp2 as the client.
The database is
>for a recruiting company and consists of 4 different
custom forms:
>
>1. Company Profile Form - custom form that is based on a
contact form
>2. Contact Profile Form - custom form that is based on a
contact form
>3. Job Order Form - custom form that is based on a post
form
>4. Sendout Form - custom form that is based a post form
>
>The forms are all used in one folder in a "hierarchal
fashion".
>Essentially the user creates a Company with the Company
Profile Form.
>The user creates a Contact for the company using a custom
action on
>the Company Profile they created to generate the Contact
Profile from
>the data contained in the Company Profile Form. And so
on and so
>forth for Job Orders and Send Outs. There is a view
control on the
>bottom half of the company profile that displays the
contacts for that
>company. What happens is that when a user enters the
folder the user
>sees a view of all the companies in the database (the
view has a
>filter restriction that filters out Contacts, Jobs, and
Sendouts).
>When the user clicks on a company to open it, before the
company is
>opened a subroutine runs that tells the view control in
the Company
>profile to only display contacts that belong to that
company.
>
>This worked great and very fast in the past it only took
a second or
>two for the company profile to display showing the user
all the
>contacts that work at that company in the bottom of the
company
>profile. Now though the database has grown to about
10,000 companies
>in the folder and over 40,000 contacts so when a user
opens a Company
>profile it takes about 7 seconds for the Company to
display because
>the view restriction takes that long to process.
>
>My question is would upgrading to Exchange 2000 provide a
performance
>increase in generating these views? I know that Exchange
2k provides
>a full text indexing option that would speed up searches
>substantially, but are there performance improvements in
Exchange 2k
>that would speed up view generation as well?
>
>My current setup:
>
>Windows 2000 Domain
>2 Exchange 5.5 sp4 servers running on Windows 2000 SP3
neither of the
>Servers running exchange are Domain Controllers.
>1 of the exchange servers just runs priv.edb database
(mailboxes)
>the second exchange server just runs pub.edb (the custom
database)
>
>Both servers are Dell 4300s
>Both exchange servers are Dual PIII 500s with 1.8 gigs of
memory and
>Raid 5
>There are approximately 50 users of the custom database
on the network
>
>Sorry for the long post but it was the only way I thought
I could
>convey my problem. Thank you for any help that anyone
can provide me.
>.
>
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