Performance guidelines and best practices | ILIA

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Applies to: IT personnel and System admins responsible for ILIA in your organization
 

Important! Reference information is located in the ILIA Reference Guide. This guide includes sample XML files, a data dictionary, troubleshooting information, and instructions on updating configuration settings in the WSB.Config file.

Intralinks Integration Adapter

Performance aspect Guidelines Comments
Number of top (root) folders created per input file. Maximum of 200 top-level folders. You can create up to 200 top- level folders in one job.
Number of folders in an exchange. 10,000 folders total in one exchange.

You can create up to 2000 folders in one job.

If you need to create more than 2000 folders, use multiple jobs.
Number of folder levels. Maximum recommended folder depth is 10. If you are creating the maxi- mum number of folders in a single job (2000), it is recommended that you keep the folder levels to a depth of 4.
Folder count per input file. 2000 If more than 2000 folders are needed in the exchange, multiple input files should be used.
Number of folders when Folder Level Permission is “On”   Up to 1000 folders in one job
Number of folders when Folder Level Permission is “Off”   Up to 2000 folders in one job
Folder count per input file when Folder Level Per- mission is “On” 1000 If more than 1000 folders are needed in the exchange, multiple input files should be used.
Folder count per input file when Folder Level Per- mission is “Off” 2000 If more than 2000 folders are needed in the exchange, multiple input files should be used
Document count per input file 2000  
Largest individual file size for uploading and down- loading. 11 GB per file. Expected download rate of 1 hour per GB for file operations, using a business-quality Inter- net connection.
Number of users sup- ported on an exchange. 5000 users There is no system limit but performance slows as the number of users increases.
Number of groups sup- ported on an exchange. 2500 groups  
Number of users sup- ported in a single group 5000

Exchange limit.

 

Number of groups that can be created or removed in one job 2500

Exchange limit.

Deleting empty groups using the Configuration Manager setting. Under 100 groups.

It is recommended that you have less than 100 groups in the exchange if you are using the Configuration Manager to automatically remove empty groups.

Intralinks Exchange

Performance Aspect   Guidelines Comments
Documents Total number 20,000 Affects advanced reports and exports, DVD archive, and smart filters. Performance degrades as the number of documents increases.
  Number in a single folder 1,000 Performance of folder naviga- tion will slow as the number of items in the folder increases.
  File size

2 GB

6 GB (ILC

only)
6 GB applies only to Courier clients. Larger size files may be possible, but 6 GB is the maxi- mum size tested.
  Total size 40 GB Greater size is possible but may affect DVD archives.
Folders Total number 10,000  
  Number of top-level folders

200

 

 
Users Total users in an exchange 5000  
  Total users in a group 2500  
Groups Total number 2500  

Client limitations and guidelines

Performance Aspect   Guideline Comments
Bulk operations (all clients) Permissions 125,000 Setting permissions in bulk (using permission overview, set folder permissions, etc.) should be lim- ited to 125,000 permission records at a time (total number of documents multiplied by total number of groups).
  Deletion of documents 6,000  
  Deletion of folders 2,000  
  Copy/paste 5,000 Total of folders and documents should be fewer than 5,000.
Intralinks Designer (ILD) File size 1,000  
  Move/re-index files 1,000  
  Add folders 2,000  
  Document updates (properties, tags, etc.) 1,000  
FileSplit Distribution count 500  
  Posting count 150  
  Template file page count 15  
  Field count 15  
Download Wizard Total number of files per download 40,000 Expected download rate of 1 hour per GB for file operations, using a business-quality Internet connection.
  Total size of download 6 GB Expected download rate of 1 hour per GB for file operations, using a business-quality Internet connection.

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