Registry tuning Windows NT

This is not the proper way to do it. I attended a siminar given by Oracle on that subject.
The first thing said was "There isn't much we can do but ... ".

The setting you're talking about is accessed through the control panel. Go to
Network -> Services, choose the server service and click on the properties button.
You'll see a radio button that makes NT work as an application server or a file
server. You need to reboot.

For any other NT tuning tips : disable all unnecessary services and remove all
unnecessary network protocols. That's it.

Sylvain Leclerc
sleclerc_at_magrit.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Vernes [SMTP:vernes.j_at_consunet.nl]
> Posted At: Thursday, June 25, 1998 4:57 PM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: Registry tuning Windows NT
> Subject: Registry tuning Windows NT
>
> Hello,
> by accident we found a document about improving Windows NT and Windows
> 95 Performance for a Lotus Notes database
> This performance issue might also work for any other Windows NT
> database.
>
> Document found
> --------------
> If you experience a high page fault rate and a high page I/O as a
> result
> of Domino server processes running on a Windows NT Advanced Server
> configuration, check the configuration file. You will probably find
> that
> the following registry entry in the configuration file is non-zero:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\Memory
> Management\LargeSystemCache
> This entry specifies that the Windows NT system should work as a file
> server rather than an application server because windows NT will favor
> the system cache working set rather than the processes working set. On
> an Windows NT workstation, the setting for that registry entry is
> zero.
> If you are running a Domino server on a Windows NT system set as a
> file
> server, the excessive page faults and paging activities can result
> from
> memory-intensive processes. For example, rebuilding the index for a
> large database might result in an undesirable level of paging, causing
> users to experience poor response times.
> To correct the problem, reset the registry entry to zeo and reboot the
> system.
> This value is default 1
>
> My questions are:
> * Has any one ever tried to modify this registry setting????
> * Does any one know / tried and tested other Windows NT registry
> settings, to make Windows NT react better
> to the database environement
> * Does any one know any good books about tuning the Windows NT server
> environement for a database server.
> I am not refering to init<instance>.ora files etc, ONLY to the
> windows NT
> site.
>
> Greetings
> John
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 30 1998 - 07:56:25 CDT