Large ZDB decreasing performance?

[Guest6400]

I have a user with a fairly large ZDB file(~2.5GB) and when she has Outlook open it will randomly take up around 80-90% of her CPU cycles. It is very periodic though, not just constant.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced performance issues with large ZDBs.

The user has Windows 2000 and Outlook 2003, which I think is probably the cause of the problem, but I was hoping I could pinpoint it.

Thanks a lot for any help

[Guest6400]

Forgot to add we're using Zimbra: 4.5.4_GA_763.RHEL4

Connector version: 4.5.169.0

[jholder]

hmm
Try to upgrade to 4.5.5, and try again. I don't see a bug in 4.5.4 for this, but it may be there.

I'll ping the outlook team for input.

-jh

[sam]

There may be many culprits here, including outlook itself. Do you have any desktop search applications like window desktop search or google desktop?

To see what is going on with ZCO, enalbe zco logging with zcologctl.exe and monitor the logs when the cpu spikes.

[Guest6400]

I think this might have been caused by another problem we've been having on the network. I'll let you guys know if this keeps up, but feel free to ignore this topic now

Thanks for all the help!

[tbovingdon]

Did you find out what was causing this? we are using a terminal server with DFS setup on the profiles to sync the data with the backup server... and the profiles are getting huge because of the zdb files.
Specifically this problem has occurred in the last month, when 3 or more people log off transferring the profile through DFS slows the TS server performance to a crawl. I would rather not disable DFS as this was working FANTASTIC for almost 3 months straight.

[Guest6400]

Honestly I think that this was being caused by a problem with our Windows update server. I'll let you know if I find anything different.