Crawl Components

Crawl Components best practices report by SPDocKit determines whether the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application has been properly configured.

Issue description

This check determines whether the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Application has been properly configured.

Explanation

The recommended limit is 16 total crawl components per application, with two per crawl database and two per server, assuming the server has at least eight processors (cores).

Solution

Make sure you do not go over the limit; if you do, reduce the number of components to remain compliant.

Additional information

Additional information can be found in the following article:

• SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits