Enterprise Vault™ Improving the Archiving Throughput of the SMTP Archiving Task

About this technical note

In some deployments of the Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving, you can improve archiving throughput by increasing the number of item processor threads for the Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving task.

This document explains how to increase the number of item processor threads for the SMTP Archiving task, and how to monitor the effectiveness of the change. Advice is also given on potential issues that you should be aware of.

For recommendations about expected resource usage, archiving throughput, and sizing the SMTP holding folder space, see the Performance Guide (https://www.veritas.com/docs/100000918). For further recommendations about deployment and example scenarios, see the Best Practices Guide (https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/ev_12_bp_SMTP_00).