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These settings are for a NW 4.x server, however, most apply to NW 5.x and 6.x as well.

Below are the settings I would recommend. These assume the server has a pretty good amount of available RAM. These are a good starting point, but they may need to be adjusted for a given environment.

[STARTUP.NCF]

Maximum Packet Receive Buffers = 500

Minimum Packet Receive Buffers = 50

Maximum Physical Receive Packet Size = 2048

Reserved Buffers Below 16 Meg = 300

[AUTOEXEC.NCF]

rem According to

rem http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10067682.htm

rem The best way to effectively disable file compression, is to change the

rem 'days untouched before compression' parameter to a large value.

SET DAYS UNTOUCHED BEFORE COMPRESSION = 100000

SET Convert Compressed To Uncompressed Option = 2

SET Maximum Concurrent Compressions = 1

SET Enable File Compression = on

SET New Packet Receive Buffer Wait Time = 0.1

SET Minimum File Cache Buffers = 2000

SET Dirty Disk Cache Delay Time = 0.1 SEC

SET Minimum File Cache Report Threshold = 2000

SET Dirty Directory Cache Delay Time = 0.1 SEC

SET Directory Cache Allocation Wait Time = 0.1 SEC

SET Directory Cache Buffer NonReferenced Delay = 5 min

Rem for a good way of estimating directory cache buffer

Rem settings see http://www.otcnetworks.com/nwram.htm

SET Maximum Directory Cache Buffers = 10000

SET Minimum Directory Cache Buffers = 5000

SET Maximum Number Of Internal Directory Handles = 200

SET Maximum Number Of Directory Handles = 100

SET Maximum Record Locks = 200000

SET Maximum Record Locks Per Connection = 50000

SET Maximum Outstanding NCP Searches = 100

SET Minimum Service Processes = 20

SET Maximum Service Processes = 50

SET New Service Process Wait Time = 0.3 SEC

rem these aren't really performance related, but I recommend them anyway.

SET Minimum File Delete Wait Time = 12 hours

SET File Delete Wait Time = 36 hours

SET Allow Deletion Of Active Directories = OFF

I also recommend scheduling nightly purging of selected deleted files using CRON and TOOLBOX. I have sample a .NCF file and CRONTAB entry at nwtips.htm#purge