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optimal performance but of course without the function provided in the Domino 7 templates. The
following links refer to these articles:
Lotus Domino 7 Server Performance, Part 1, September 2005
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/nd7-perform/index.html
Lotus Domino 7 Server Performance, Part 2, November 2005
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino7-internet-performance/index.html
Lotus Domino 7 Server Performance, Part 3, November 2005
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino7-enterprise-performance/
Additional improvements have been made in Domino 7 to support more users per Domino partition.
Internal benchmark tests have been run with as many as 18,000 Notes clients in a single partition. While
we understand most customers will not configure a single Domino server to regularly run that number of
clients, improvements have been made to enable this type scaling within a Domino partition if desired. A
recently published audit report (January 2006) for the System i5 595 demonstrates that 250,500 R6Mail
users were run using only 14 Domino mail partitions with most running 18,000 users each.
Domino Domain Monitor
Included with Domino 7 is the Domino Domain Monitoring facility which provides a means to monitor
and determine the health of an entire domain at a single location and quickly resolve problems. Some of
the System i guidelines included for acceptable faulting rates have shown to be a bit aggressive, such that
customers have reported that memory alerts and alarms are being triggered even though system
performance and response times are acceptable. Work is in progress to make adjustments to future
versions of the tool to adjust the faulting guidelines. If you are running this tool and experience alerts for
high faulting rates (above 100 per processor), the alerts can be disregarded if you are experiencing
acceptable response time and system performance.

11.4 Domino 6

Domino 6 provided some very impressive performance improvements over Domino 5, both for workloads
we've tested in our lab and for customers who have already deployed Domino 6 on iSeries. In this
section we'll provide data showing these improvements based on testing done with the Mail and
Calendaring User and Domino Web Access workloads.

Notes client improvements with Domino 6

Using the Mail and Calendaring User workload, we compared performance using Domino 5.0.11 and
Domino 6. The table below summarizes our results.
IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008
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