We have many notes sites around the world and are configured the same. One if our smaller sites began having Delayed Write Failed errors. This isn’t specific to one user or PC either.
The specific error is Windows - Delayed Write Failed. Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \Server\notes\data\headline.nsf.
This isn’t a new configuration and no other network issues have shown up. The notes server is Windows 2000 with all the service packs and the clients are Windows XP with all the latest service packs.
Are your Notes clients configured with their Notes data directory on a network share? or on the local disk of the PCs?
We’re set up with our user’s data on a network drive, and we’ve had this problem before, when there has been a performance problem (disk throughput) on that server.
To diagnose the problem, we set up some performance monitoring on the volume that hosted our Notes data files, looking specifically at disk read and write performance.
To resolve the problem, we moved our Notes data onto a new data volume that was optimized for both read and write performance.
Some background:
We have approx. 450 sets of Notes user data on this volume.
Previously, we were using a shared RAID 5 array on our SAN (fast for reading, slower for writing). Sorry - I don’t have any tech details like stripe size.
Now we use a dedicated RAID 1 array on the same SAN (fast for reading and writing), and have not seen the problem since.