Special Edition Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server By Robert Ferguson
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Chapter 6. Capacity Planning Within Your Environment
The two most commonly performed tuning processes are for searching and indexing. SharePoint Portal Server allows the administrator to assign each process a higher or lower priority, based on your business requirements. If the search and indexing features are both enabled on the same server, this tuning feature enables you to optimize the performance and balance the role across resources accordingly . In contrast, if you are using several dedicated servers for searching and indexing, you can use these control features to assign resources according to the distribution method.
Within the default settings for a fresh installation of SharePoint Portal Server, these controls are distributed evenly for search and indexing. The settings allow you several configuration options. Adjusting the tuning bar toward Background will give priority to other applications. Adjusting the tuning bar toward Dedicated will assign a majority of the system resources to creating or updating indexing. Figure 6.6 provides the procedure for accessing this tuning bar feature.
Figure 6.6. Specifying search and index resource usage.
To configure resource usage on a SharePoint Portal Server, do the following:
Within the console tree of SharePoint Portal Server Administrator, right-click on the server that you want to adjust.
Click on properties and then click on the General tab (see Figure 6.6).
Slide the Search resource usage or Index resource usage to the preferred setting, and click Apply.
If additional applications are also loaded on this same server, it is recommended that you not adjust resource usage controls. Adjusting these controls on a SharePoint Portal Server that has other applications loaded on it can impact resources that are dedicated the other applications.
