Performance Notes client

If your Notes client is performing slow which is not related to network or bandwidth, then you can try the NCO tool below..

https://www.notesmail.com/Notes-Client-Optimizer

Notes Client Optimizer for HCL Notes and Domino

HCL Notes Optimization tool 🛠️⚡🧹

Increase Notes speed and performance including local mailboxes & apps

Resolve slowness issues with Notes clients in a few clicks...

Notes Client Optimizer (NCO) is a Notes optimization tool which is crucial to running HCL Notes at the highest performance level. IT Help Desk or non-technical users can run NCO every X months or when a slowness issues occurs, hence, minimizing calls to the IT Help Desk and maintaining a positive user experience. Running NCO is similar concept as running Windows "Disk Cleanup" and "Disk Defragmenter". HCL Notes occasionally has slowness issues due to many factors including corruption, fragmentation, antivirus, temporary files, user behavior, hardware resources, etc. Rather than wasting hours of time trying to research, troubleshoot and resolve the issue, the NCO tool resolves all issues automatically including guidance and tips to keep the Notes client healthy.

• Increase Notes speed and performance

• Resolve slowness issues in local mailboxes and apps

• Similar concept as running Windows "Disk Cleanup" & "Defragment and Optimize Drives"

• Designed for IT help desk and non-technical person

• No need to research and troubleshoot issues

• No need to manually delete files or reinstall Notes

• Notes and Domino 14 & earlier compatible

• Simple installation (No DLLs), Quick and easy to use

• Nomad Web, HCAA 3 compatible

• Desktop platforms: Windows

• Server platforms: Windows, Linux, AIX

What is exactly shipped?

I am sorry but on all our PCs Notes V12 is much slower then V11 and this was much slower then V10. It is getting harder and harder to get any accaptence from users for Notes Client. Please improve performance on start up and shut down dramatically!

When will you implement this?

Notes v12 performances are still very poor on macOS.

Yes the client performance improved with 12. Indeed. However, I have to use Thunderbird and Notes simultanously. In comparison, whenever I click into a Thunderbird window, the software responds immediately. Notes sometimes simply hangs or takes a nap for a few seconds(!), it seems to be disabled - even on fast machines. Responsiveness, reaction rate - it needs to be more snappy to really compete. Hopelully the 64-Bit version will help here. Other than that: HCL keep pushing for more :-)

Performance improvements have shipped with Notes 12.0
https://help.hcltechsw.com/notes/12.0.0/client/performance_improvements.html

Please understand partner and customer need. Performance is more importance. Please update in any fix pack of domino 11. We can't wait for new version.

In V11 eclipse remain ... this don’t solve the performance problem.:-(

We will lose others customers..

very unhappy

After 2 years  of AHA suggestion ..seem that the TOP popular ideas is not included into the notes client..

The Eclipse platform is bloated and unnecessary for most of the Notes tasks.

Our users don't want to run Notes in Basic mode. They want a mail client as simple to use as GMail in the browser or the GMail app on the iPhone. 

Network performance should also not be ignored.  Performance in Notes suffers dramatically with a server on the Internet vs on LAN.  Some operations, like adding a large number of documents to a folder, can take a fair amount of time.  Notes also doesn't seem to handle network instability well.

We are well aware of your request and are investigating options to get this done. The link above was posted to help with the current situation.

I dislike the idea of IBM promoting the idea of improving Notes' performance through additional tuning. Does this means that IBM is not doing a good job tuning the client before releasing to customers and customers need to rely on "hacks" and third party's advice to tune IBM's product?

Just use the basic client - it is lightning fast (start with notes.exe-basic)

IBM: Please dont't forget the basic client  when you develop a new ui ;-)

Hello Thomas,

for give perfomance to IBM Notes Client actually the IT need to exclude FOLDER DATA of IBM Notes...

the problem it's the thousands of files that AV need to scan and WIndows Search indexing run on CPU...

This is the problem... and Eclipse is the cause of the problem

A client software like Notes is not authorized to change settings of the Antivirus software. This will remain a task for the desktop admin. For more performance tuning tips take a look at this presentation https://www.slideshare.net/christophadler50/engage-2018-ibm-notes-and-domino-performance-boost-reloaded

Eclipse may be part of the problem however the looks and fell of it is now Notes. This has to be retained even is Eclipse is binned. The right hand task bar is sacrosanct!  We have SameTime Meeting, Connection, IT Support, IM etc etc

despite efforts to remove 2 plugins ...
The client's performance is really slow compared to the competition and other software.

any customer always says the same thing ...
The client is heavy ...

Will it be Eclipse's fault?
Do you think it's normal to have a program composed of over 40,000 files?
I do not think so ... and I also think that Eclipse is the cause of the problem

As Ram mentioned: "We have removed some plugins from V10 already to reduce the footprint and runtime performance. This will be an ongoing activity to simplify the package"

This will be an ongoing activity for v10 and v11. If you have SPECIFIC performance issues please open a support case for it.