12
Optimisation
Actions
Overview
McAfee
generally
recommends
the
following
actions
(
most
of
which
are
described
in
more
detail
later
):
•
Optimize
hard
disks
for
I/O
performance.
As
above,
15
K
RPM
disks
are
the
best.
The
disks
should
be
in
a
RAID
5
array
with
a
controller,
with
the
maximum
amount
of
cache
available.
UPS
backup
is
recommended.
See
chapters
above.
•
Use
DAS
rather
than
a
network
location
SAN/NAS.
See
chapters
above.
•
Enable
indexing
of
the
Object
Directory
with
dbcfg.ini.
•
Keep
number
of
objects
per
group
to
a
minimum
within
the
object
directory
and
minimize
number
of
users
assigned
to
clients.
Also
less
aggressive
sync
policy
for
clients
can
ease
server
load.
•
Reduce
the
TCP/IP
KeepAliveTime
to
five
minutes.
•
Disable
NTFS
Last
Access
Update
with
a
registry
change.
•
Increase
the
size
of
the
NTFS
Master
File
Table
(MFT)
with
a
registry
change.
•
Optimize
backups.
•
Exclude
the
Object
Directory
and
the
associated
services
from
virus
scans.
•
Set
Windows
server
performances
settings
to
background
services
and
system
cache.
•
Manage
Audits.
•
Use
Hard
Drive
controller
caching.
•
Use
good
network
connections
to
Object
Directory
servers.
•
Store
the
Object
Directory
(usually
stored
in
SBDATA
folder)
on
a
separate
drive
or
partition
to
the
OS.
•
Don’t
allow
the
database
to
be
shared.
•
Check
that
every
administrator
goes
through
the
EEPC
Database
server,
not
direct
through
local
connection.
•
Limit
the
use
of
the
‘Find’
function
in
20K+
databases
during
normal
working
hours
as
it
can
slow
access.
•
Clear
object
items
from
deleted
items,
regularly
when
not
needed.
•
Increase
max
connections
in
SBServer.ini
(in
some
cases).
