Subject: Here are some areas I would recommend
Some of these are very low lever things to look at, but are things that I would look at to try to binary chop where the problem is:
First, has anything changed in your configuration between when things were ok and when things got slow?
Anything change on the client? (New software, upgraded software, 3rd party products, AntiVirus, etc.)
Anything change on the server?
Is this a specific system, a number of systems or all systems?
Any correlation to time of day or day of week?
If so, is there something else that happens at that time or on that day on that system or in the environment?
Do your systems perform full AV scans weekly? If so, those are known to cause a system to be generally sluggish.
Are the Databases located on a server?
Have you turned on CLIENT_CLOCK and checked the response times of the client/server transactions when performing a slow action?
Is the overall system sluggish at the time or just Notes?
Have you looked at “Task Manager” and is a specific process using a lot of CPU?
If one of those processes is a Notes process (Notes2, NLNotes, NtaskLdr), have you manually triggered an NSD and looked at the call stacks in the process. To see if the same “work/code” is executing, I would recommend triggering 2 manual NSDs 15-30 seconds apart. If the call stacks of a process that is using a lot of CPU are the same, then you know that that specific codepath has been executing during the gap between the NSDs.
Do you have any 3rd party programs via EXTMGR or NSFHOOKS in the Notes.INI?
If so, have they changed recently? If you disable them, does the problem go away?
Doug Conmy
Notes Client Lead Architect