Vince's Dominolog 
About Lotus and other stuff
Ideajam on and about OpenNTF's website
OpenNTF started an IdeaJam on the OpenNTF services and website usability.
So if you have something to say go here to post your thoughts now.
The Ideajam will close at 07/16/10 10:00AM Middle European time (GMT +1), so you have to be quick!
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Every OpenNTF user can participate. Use the ideaspace 'July2010' and the tag 'July2010'.
Fixed comments on IE, Chrome still a problem
The 'unkown error' thrown by IE is fixed now, but Chrome still does not want to play along with the JS on this site.
Sorry, I don't have time to check out why at the moment so for now Chrome is out :(
Domino crashing every 70 mins (like clockwork)
This problem stumped me for a while.
Since this particular server had not been maintained in years (why would one, it's Domino right? ;)) I first checked the usual suspects; agents, replication schedules etcetera and disabled unnecessary processes.
That didn't help, so I asked them to send me the console.log and the NSD's.
From the NSD's we concluded that the SMTP task was responsible for at least a couple of the crashes, so we disabled the SMTP at 69 minutes and enabled it after 71. No Crash!!???
We already did all the usual fixes like deleting the smtp.boxes, disabling all virus and spam engine both on the server itself and in Domino, but nothing helped.
Luckily my good friend Kurt de Feyter helped me out by converting the NSD into something more readable showing that the names.nsf was seriously corrupted.
Fixing that did not help however, but combining the NSD with SMTP debugging we found that all the crashes were caused by the same incoming e-mail.
After blocking the originating IP on the firewall and in Domino the problem was 'fixed'.
Since this is 6.5.6 we are talking about, there is no intend to investigate any further, but if you ever see this kind of behavior, remember to check the external factors.
8.5.1 Lotusscript INI setting: GO_FASTER=1
One of my customers called me 2 weeks ago (right in the middle of my vacation as usual ;)) that after upgrade to 8.5.1 FP2 the performance of one of their production servers got so bad that both the front-end and the back-end crawled to almost a full stop.
Since I was on vacation there was not much I could do, but luckily they got help from IBM, and although it took them almost a week they came up with the solution reported earlier by Erik Brooks.
It seems that the 8.5.1 Lotusscript engine has some serious performance issues due to SPR# DCOE6KPW48.
The SPR# DPOL7PEHQX apparently counteracts that problem providing a new ini - FullTrimFix=0 - to disable DCOE6KPW48, which then will restore performance.
Erik reported performance issues of agents running 3-4 times as slow, but my customer experienced far worse. So keep this in mind if you run 8.5 servers with complex applications.
'Escaped' from Tenerife
Due to the ash cloud, all air traffic to and from Tenerife was suspended temporarily on tuesday .
It was just plain bad luck that my flight was among those that were cancelled. It was IMO not 'just' bad luck that the earliest possible return flight to our original destination was said to be May 23rd!!!
Luckily I was able to book a flight with another airliner before the other other duped passengers because I never go anywhere without laptop or UMTS dial-in card. And although it was a night-flight (I hate those because I can never sleep while travelling) and the destination was 100 km off of my original destination, I felt lucky to get a flight at all.
So remember this folks, don't leave home without proper internet access (Anil, that goes for you too :P).