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Question Anderson Negreli · 4 hr ago

Official recommendation regarding Windows Drive Indexing for IRIS/Caché data drives

I am currently managing environments running InterSystems IRIS and Caché on Windows servers.

I’m reviewing storage optimization best practices and I have a question regarding a specific Windows drive setting: "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties."

Based on my research, everything indicates that it is better to disable this option, especially on drives used by databases. However, I couldn't find a specific "official" stance in the documentation explicitly mentioning this checkbox.

My questions are:

  1. Is there an official recommendation from InterSystems regarding disabling content indexing for drives hosting database files (.dat), journals, and WIJ?
  2. Does anyone have experience with performance gains or avoiding "disk busy" bottlenecks by disabling this feature?
  3. Besides indexing, are there any other recommended Windows parameters or system settings that should be adjusted to optimize database performance?.

I want to ensure the OS isn't competing with the IRIS write daemon for disk resources.

Comments

Enrico Parisi · 1 hr ago

If you need " official recommendation" you should contact InterSystems WRC, this is a Developer Community.

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