Just curious if anyone else is finding their 6 client a little slow. Yes, everything has been taken into consideration, hardware requirements, cache.dsk, view indexes, compacts, design locking, perweb.nsf, compacting Workspace. Is this just going to be the way the 6 client runs? Any insight or other ways to improve it’s speed would be great!
Thx
BB
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
We’ve been running 75 Notes 6.0 Clients (Mostly on Win 2K & XP, and a couple of Macs) for a few months now, and have seen nothing but performance improvement. In fact, we have deferred a network upgrade at one of locations because of it. One thing that I’ve noticed a couple times is that laptops can sometimes be excessively slow for a day or two after an upgrade (from R5) due to indices being rebuilt by ntaskldr. This is more likely to happen on older laptops that have large local replicas or ft indices. When this happens, I just let the Client run for several hours to finish up the index conversion.
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
For your problem, look your antivirus to see if it scan the Lotus Notes transactions. Simply for testing, shutdown your antivirus and run the 6 client.
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
I agree here. Since our Client upgrade from R5 to 6.5, several users and I have noticed that it runs slower. Some are slower than others. Not sure what the solution is… deleting cache.ndk, desktop6.ndk and compacting bookmark.nsf seems to have helped, but some things are still slower than they should be.
Subject: RE: 6 Client - Slow
Yes, we have a mixed bag too.
It appears network related somehow, although all other services work fine.
Even notesping seems to hang, spuratically, for long periods… like 15 seconds!
This is bizarre and just something we have been dealing with. Some PCs on some switches seem to work better than others.
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
I’ve had a couple of user complaints about speed.
Opening a memo from the mailbox takes 2-3secs which does seem slow. Having experimented, turning off swiftfile brings it back to normal performance.
Any of you guys using swiftfile and measured performance?
Cheers,
Ben
Subject: RE: 6 Client - Slow
I noticed a similar delay when using Swiftfile on an older laptop (300 Mghz, 128 RAM) - a second or two delay for the open.
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
Maybe this?
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
I’ve noticed that R6 client view scrolling is slower on old machines (266MGz 128 RAM) compared with R5(same server/same DB)
Users was very unhappy and clients hardware was upgraded
Subject: 6 Client - Slow- SOLVED!
Thank you to whomever suggested the simple and effective solution of turning OFF automatic refresh of mailfile in User Preferences. I can’t find the original post so I’m replying to the root thread.
This simple setting solved the problem of needless, retarded, 30 second delays all the time when opening a new database or document. Ohhh was that annoying… its amazing how big problems can have simple causes.
Damian
Subject: 6 Client - Slow
The suggestions given above are good ones.
Norton Antivirus – The “Lotus Notes protection” or whatever it is called in the Norton Antivirus corporate edition can cause slowdown when opening documents with attachments. Normally, the Notes client only opens the attachments on demand (like when you download the attachment). Norton forces a download of the attachment on every doc opening (causing network delays) to do a virus check. We are working with Symantec to see if we can get that preformance issue solved.
Swiftfile – Yes, Swiftfile currently causes some extra network traffic when opening mail documents which will degrade performance somewhat. We are looking at that issue for a future version of Notes/Swiftfile.
Jeff Eisen
Lotus Notes Technical Lead
Messaging and Collaboration
Lotus Software/IBM Software Group
Subject: How strange…
No, Notes R6 is pretty fast on my computer. In fact, my perception is that it is faster than R5.
What computer hardware are you using?
What operating system do you have?
How much memory is installed?
How big is your hard disk and is there enough free space?
Have you defragmented the drive recently?
Are you running any anti-virus software?
Are you experiencing this on a mail file or another database?
If so, how big is the database?
Where does the database reside?
If it resides on a server, is your network congested today?
Is anyone else on the network experiencing this problem?
Is the server performing well?
Is this a production or a development environement?
Are you using the client in a Microsoft test lab?
Are you running the Notes client under Linux?
If so, have you issued the command “man HowToAskForHelpInAForum”?
BB
Subject: Whatever!
Cute! Having a bad day? Or are you always this friendly?
BB
Subject: Whatever! - ug
I, too, seem to find R6 faster than R5 on my PII 366 laptop. THe loading is painful, but once in memory, it is plenty fast. I have 256 megs of ram and a 40GIg HD.
Subject: LOL.
Subject: I think so too…
Coming from an Outlook/Exchange migration, I have to agree too, that Notes in general is slow, especially if you don’t have the luxury of having all your users’ PCs being being the latest, fastest hardware. While Outlook runs fine and quite fast on old 333MHz NT4 workstations, Notes’ (either 5 or 6) performance on that same hardware is rather disappointing. Your minimum workstation really needs to be at least 600MHz P3 or greater, preferably 1GHz or greater, to really appease the users. Anything slower just frustrates them. MHO.
Subject: Two words: Web Mail =)