As I know that many of you want the best performance for each program they have, we will give you some tips to make your server run faster.Console Tips
As you may have already noticed, logging everything to screen can affect your server's performance: displaying lots of text lines really slows down the server (believe me).
So what should I log ?
Let us know if you have other performance tips or general tips, we'll be happy to include them!
- if your server has many clients (> 20), then do not log superfluous commands (specific commands or frequent commands like 'change directory', etc.) on screen
- logging to file does not take many CPU cycles so I think you can log everything unless it becomes enormous so that you should set a daily log
- Do not audit (log) users who are not critical to the server. IMO it's often useless to log anonymous user's commands. Alternatively you may want to log anonymous users only and 'trust' accounted users. See configure logging.
- Do not log server answers to screen if not needed: try a 'SITE INDEX *.*' on 'C:\' and you'll see what I mean if you have 10000+ files...
- disable 'log to screen when minimized' if you run the server minimized
- arrange the receive buffer so that it feets your needs (I STILL recommend to keep it at 4096 though)
- set the server priority to high if it is a dedicated FTP Server (use 'Realtime' at your own risk, you've been warned!)