Earlier this week I picked up a tweet from Alan Hamilton about an IBM whitepaper about how to optimise performance of the Notes Client.
Not surprisingly, the operating system has a big impact on the speed of Lotus Notes opening, but also hanging of the Notes Client (and presumably Domino Designer client). The whitepaper is well worth reading, particularly for support teams. Good management of the PC can avoid some of frustrations of users that are wrongly laid at the feet of Lotus Notes.
Any developer providing an application on the Lotus Notes Client may also want to leave a copy strategically on the desks of their colleagues!
Not mentioned in the whitepaper, but covered in the new XPages Portable Command Guide book, are the notes.ini variable settings to optimise Lotus Notes Client memory usage – vmarg.Xmx and vmarg.Xms. When amended relative to the PC’s system memory, this too can improve Notes Client performance.
