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Updaters

Parameter: Updaters
Short description: Number of Update tasks (view/full-text index maintenance) that can run simultaneously on the server.

Profile

Parameter
Updaters
Category
Performance / Memory (Indexing)
Available since
At least 9.0.1 (HCL documentation)
GUI equivalent
According to HCL, no direct GUI option. Can be set in the configuration document on the NOTES.INI Settings tab.
Possible values
Integer — number of concurrently running Update tasks

Description

According to the HCL product documentation, Updaters defines the number of Update server tasks that can run simultaneously on the server.
Verbatim from the HCL documentation:
  • You must shut down and restart the server for this setting to take effect. (Changes only take effect after a server restart.)
  • Default: None, although if this setting is omitted, only a single Update task can run at a time. (Without an entry, exactly one Update task runs.)
Multiple parallel Update tasks can speed up index updates on servers with many databases — each task can independently refresh views and maintain full-text indexes.
The HCL help page Running multiple Update tasks (admn_runningmultipleupdatetasks_t.html) additionally describes that further Update tasks can be started at runtime via Domino Administrator Task → Start.

Example configuration

Updaters=2
With Updaters=2, the server starts two Update tasks in parallel.

Notes & pitfalls

  • Effective only after a server restart.
  • HCL note from the Running multiple Update tasks help page: when manually starting additional Updaters in Domino Administrator, choose Update, not Update all.
  • Without an entry, exactly 1 Update task runs — that is the implicit default.
  • According to HCL, there is no direct GUI equivalent; the value can be maintained via the NOTES.INI Settings tab of a configuration document.

Sources (HCL Product Documentation)