Carrie Miles
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Consistency check in Lotus Notes
We are working in a citrix environment with Lotus Notes. User's connect to a public ip from their homes. After connecting from home, doing a proper File-Exit Notes, they come in the office, open their mail and a consistency check is being performed on their mailbox.
Is there anyway to not have that happen? They are closing out of Notes correctly, so I'm not sure why it's doing that once they get in the office an login?
Thank you in advance
Is there anyway to not have that happen? They are closing out of Notes correctly, so I'm not sure why it's doing that once they get in the office an login?
Thank you in advance
ASKER
The mailbox is on the server. When you say "Check that all versions are correct", what do you mean by that?
I'm more of an Exchange person as opposed to Lotus Notes. Please bear with me.
I only came to this company a month ago, nothing has changed since I have been here concerning Lotus Notes. This issue was happening before I came. It seems to only happen for a few users, not all users?
Thank you
I'm more of an Exchange person as opposed to Lotus Notes. Please bear with me.
I only came to this company a month ago, nothing has changed since I have been here concerning Lotus Notes. This issue was happening before I came. It seems to only happen for a few users, not all users?
Thank you
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The consistency check was happening on perweb.nsf. I resolved the problem by copying mine to her data directory.
Thank you
Thank you
OK, here's the lowdown. Like most e-Mail clients, Notes displays HTML. If you click on a link, it typically opens your external web browser (IE), but mail always displays using Notes's own basic web browser. That web browser stores its cache and some settings in perweb.nsf.
When you open a message containing HTML, the Notes web browser process starts up, and attempts to open its cache file, perweb.nsf, and does not close it until Notes closes. Therefore, if there is ANY problem closing Notes, that file will be left "dirty" and a consistency check will be performed.
Now, if you exit Notes properly, it wouldn't be a problem. But sometimes you THINK you've exited properly, and really have not. The first instance woudl be if Notes itself has a problem closing down. The screen may go away, but some background processes may be hung. This happens to me quite frequently, but I'm also someone who pushes Notes to do things at its limits all the time, so this may not be typical for other users.
The second example might be that Notes is simply taking a while to close its processes. I find that if Notes is using more than 75-80MB among its processes (nlnotes, ntaskldr, nsl, nslsvice, that it can take up to a full minute after Notes appears to be shut down, for all memory, processes, and file locks to be released. If the CItrix session is killed before Notes finishes this, then you can end up with dirty databases.
There are other databases that are probably also getting consistency checks, but perweb tends to be very large because of all the graphics that ccumulate in it. Unless users clean them out manually, or replace the fdatabase, or change the settings on their machines, that database will keep accumulating stuff forever.
Users who have large local mail files will also see similar behavior on the mail file consistency check. And the Notes system log database, log.nsf, can also grow uncontrolled and leave you with a long consistency check before Notes will open. (BTW, the first data file Notes opens when it starts is notes.ini. The second? log.nsf.)
When you open a message containing HTML, the Notes web browser process starts up, and attempts to open its cache file, perweb.nsf, and does not close it until Notes closes. Therefore, if there is ANY problem closing Notes, that file will be left "dirty" and a consistency check will be performed.
Now, if you exit Notes properly, it wouldn't be a problem. But sometimes you THINK you've exited properly, and really have not. The first instance woudl be if Notes itself has a problem closing down. The screen may go away, but some background processes may be hung. This happens to me quite frequently, but I'm also someone who pushes Notes to do things at its limits all the time, so this may not be typical for other users.
The second example might be that Notes is simply taking a while to close its processes. I find that if Notes is using more than 75-80MB among its processes (nlnotes, ntaskldr, nsl, nslsvice, that it can take up to a full minute after Notes appears to be shut down, for all memory, processes, and file locks to be released. If the CItrix session is killed before Notes finishes this, then you can end up with dirty databases.
There are other databases that are probably also getting consistency checks, but perweb tends to be very large because of all the graphics that ccumulate in it. Unless users clean them out manually, or replace the fdatabase, or change the settings on their machines, that database will keep accumulating stuff forever.
Users who have large local mail files will also see similar behavior on the mail file consistency check. And the Notes system log database, log.nsf, can also grow uncontrolled and leave you with a long consistency check before Notes will open. (BTW, the first data file Notes opens when it starts is notes.ini. The second? log.nsf.)
ASKER
Thanks for the info, very helpful!
So, how do you clean the perweb.nsf file? Or how can I change the setting to clean out perweb.nsf?
So, how do you clean the perweb.nsf file? Or how can I change the setting to clean out perweb.nsf?
Open it, choose Actions -> Internet Options, go to Size options tab
ASKER
Thank you very much!
ASKER
Actuall, I'm not seeing Internet Options under Size options? I'm on my Inbox, do I need to be somewhere else? I tried Workspace as well.
We are running Notes client 6.5.4. Thank you
We are running Notes client 6.5.4. Thank you
You need to open perweb.nsf first.
ASKER
Duh!! Sorry about that:)
If on the server, I would check that all the versions are correct.
Even if a user does not exit Notes properly, a consistency check is not necessarily performed.
Is this happening to every User ?
When did this start ?
What has changed ?
I hope this helps !