Limit items processed per Domino Journal job - Possible?

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Hi,

Lotus Notes deletes items deleted only after closing a connection normally (that´s the way it works by design) but when the connecton ends abnormally no items are deleted and messages remain in the mailbox even when they were already archived. I have a case in which mailboxes (notes databases) have more than 150,000 emails in them so besides solving why Notes hangs randomly, limiting every Domino Jounal job to process, let´s say, 2000 mails per pass would help a lot. I´ve heard there´s a way to ES1 Domino Journal jons in such way but have not found how, so any help will be really appreciated.

Notes 8.5.2 is installed on worker servers and SourceOne is running on v 7.1.

Thanks in advance

christopher_ime · Answer

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JLPerez1 · Answer

Thanks Christopher, I thought I did it correctly. I´m doing it now. JL

RKatwal · Answer

Hi JL,

What you are looking for is possible. To enable that part of the configuration would need EMC Support to evaluate the scenario and seek some approvals because the approach have pros and cons.

For an example:

Let us assume you have very busy domino server that can journal up to 3500 emails in 5 minutes. Journal activities once stopped only comes back in 5 minutes. When these jobs starts they will enumerate the mailbox and start processing items. If those items are 20000 then after the change to stop after 2000 items the journal activity will stop. It may finish within a minute or two (depending upon kind of resources allocated). Now for next 5 minutes new journal activity would not come. Journal mailbox went down by 2000 items and in next 5 minutes went up by 3500. That would mean now you will have backlog of 21500.

It is just an example, I am not saying it is applicable to all sites. Just that while making the changes some factors needs to be considered and a number that is optimal is needed to be found. Personally I only recommend it as a workaround when some issues exist. We should look to fix the underlying issue.

Best regards,

Rajan

SourceOne

Limit items processed per Domino Journal job - Possible?

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