I have modified all 108 of our Windows 2000 DC's to use the Windows 2003 intrasite defaults of 15/3 seconds with no problems.
-Rick --- Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We actually have the holdback and pause cranked down > to 30 seconds and 15 > seconds on my DC's in my data center sites (all > 100Mbs switched with Gig > backbone) and it works fine. Had to crank it up to > keep Exchange 2000 > happy... Heh. > > As for the bridgeheads, once you get to W2K3 you > will get load balancing on > your bridgeheads - not dynamic but better than what > you have now. You can > also look at a tool now called ADLB which will > stagger your bridgeheads for > a given site. If you have DC's that could > potentially be really slow or bad > network to them this could be a good thing because > one bridgehead can become > an anchor if its ONE SINGLE INBOUND REPLICATION > thread gets tied up with a > bad DC or bad network to a DC until it can finally > time it out and dump it > which can vary depending on when it went bad... I > think the max is something > like 40 minutes but it has been a while since I have > looked at it. Now if I > get something backing me up I run a little perl > script that smokes the DNS > records and keeps them smoked until I know that DC > is back talking properly. > > > But again... each DC has (by default) 25 outbound > threads for listening for > replication pulls... they all only have ONE inbound > thread. If that inbound > ties up, that DC is bottlenecked. PSS and I have > agreed to disagree that > that is a good design. :o) > > joe > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ayers, Diane > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > All: > > Thanks for the tips and hints. It seems that urgent > replication is working > better this AM. I tracked a locked account from the > source DC to the > replication partners and it seems to be bypassing > the replication schedule. > Too cool... > > I'm still seeing some delay between the DCs that are > "second hop" from the > source via the replication topology but it seems to > be a result of the new > replication topology as opposed to anything else. > As Joe mentioned, the > bridgehead server issue between sites comes into > play. > > I was curious if anyone has tweaked the holdback > timing and pause rates. > I'm inclined to tweak those settings to see better > replication times as it > seems that it has been tweaked already in 2003. > We're planning to go to > 2003 after the holidays but want to see if anyone > has taken the plunge in > Win2K. > > Diane > > _____ > > From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent > replication > > > > this is not only useful in the scenario described in > this thread - if you > generally want to speed up intra-site replication > between DCs, you'd also > want to work on these settings (not in 2k3, where > it's as quick as it can > get anyways and where the registry key is removed by > default): > > Registry Key to change Windows 2000 Replication > behavior > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters > - Replicator notify pause between DSAs (secs) => > pause between > notifications > - Replicator notify pause after modify (secs) => > pause to send first > notification after a change > > Default values: pause after modify / pause between > DSAs > > > * Windows 2000: registry values > > > * 5 minutes / 30 seconds > > * Windows 2003: new default values if registry keys > are not set > > > * 15 seconds / 3 seconds > > > > _____________________________________________ > From: Rick Kingslan [ <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Dienstag, 18. November 2003 05:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent > replication > > So, you're thinking with ATM between DCs I can crank > up the holdback timing > and pause rates? Neat..... > > ;op > > Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT > Microsoft MVP - Active Directory > Associate Expert > Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > > WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food > > > > _____________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent > replication > > Cool in that case I would do the same... Also if it > is W2K and your > bandwidth can truly handle it I would turn down the > timing for holdback and > pause between dsa's. > > joe > > > _____________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Diane Ayers > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The biggest concern is not really the replication > traffic and wanting to > throttle the traffic but trying to localize the > authentication. I've turned > on change notifications and we'll see how this > works. Thanks for the > refresher on urgent replication and good point on > the bridge head traffic. > > Diane > > _____________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Inter-site Urgent > replication > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
