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AdminP ini variable

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I need to write a complete wrap-up of Lotusphere this week. I had planned to do it over the weekend, but I barely had time to breathe. I flew home from Orlando on Friday and turned around and flew to Boston on Sunday morning. So I decided to spend that precious 36 hours at home away from the computer. I'm sure you all understand.

Those of you who attended the AdminP "Meet the Geeks" session on Wednesday night may remember some discussion about a server-side ini variable that will help AdminP requests process faster. There is a technote on this, 1174405, that explains what the resolution is. This issue relates to renames or deletions in ACLs taking a long time to process and was occurring when multiple ACL rename/deletions were taking place. The rename/delete in ACL process uses a particular semaphore, which is the same semaphore that is used by the Delegate Mail File request (essentially, any modification to the ACL by an AdminP request uses that semaphore). The semaphore would get locked by each rename or deletion, so all the other requests would have to wait until each rename/deletion was completed. This fix and ini variable batches renames and deletions together so that if there are multiple renames or deletions waiting to be processed, and AdminP encounters a database that contains all of those names in an ACL, it processes all changes for that particular database at the same time, instead of making each change individually for each request. The ini variable is:

ADMINP_ENABLE_CASCADE_DESIGN_ELEMENTS=1

and applies to 6.0.5/6.5.4 and later.

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 08:16:13 AM