How to Adjust Billing File Movement Rates (163864)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Commercial Internet System 1.0
This article was previously published under Q163864
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SUMMARY

The rate at which billing events are moved from the broker to the agent depends on how busy those computers are. This rate is not adjustable.

The size of billing event files is adjustable, as is the number of files replicated at a time. These, in turn, have an effect on the rate of those files being moved (via CRS) from the agent to the event collector.

MORE INFORMATION

  • You cannot adjust the broker; the broker sends billing events to the agent as it has bandwidth to do so.
  • You can adjust the rate at which the agent causes replication to the event collector. This is done by adjusting the following registry entry:
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    For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys And Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).


    1. Run REGEDT32.
    2. Go to the following subkey:

      HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Events\EventsPerFile\EventsPerLogFile

      default=2048 (decimal)

      Adjusting this registry variable changes the number of events to a file. A new file is started when the old one is full. Full files are then replicated to the event collector. You can adjust this rate by increasing or reducing this value (change the number of entries in the file), which correlates to the rate at which files are moved from:

      <agent>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl

      to:

      <event collector>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl\import

  • You can also adjust the number of files sent per replication sequence.

    This is done by adjusting the following registry entry:

    1. Run REGEDT32.
    2. Go to the following subkey:

      HKLM\Software\Events\EventTypes\18\NumberOfFilesPerTransmission

      default=16 (Decimal)

      Adjusting this registry variable changes the maximum number of files replicated (moved by CRS) per cycle of that process (again, dependent upon the bandwidth of the agent computer).
  • Files placed in <agent>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl remain there until the agent has enough bandwidth to use CRS to move them to:

    <event collector>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl\import

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/23/2003
Keywords:kbhowto KB163864
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