System down - part 2 of ? (Networking Products)
At 16 JUN 1998 10:26:46PM James Dickens wrote:
Pardon the multiple messages. Netscape locks every time I try to send this as a whole message.
1.) Arev 2.12
2.) NLM 1.2
3.) System has mix of DOS, WIN 3.11, and Win95 machines with processors anywhere from 486/33 upto P333.
3.) SQL Server bond using DBMSSPX and DATASEG
4.) Compaq dual processor server. Primary processor is only used by Netware.
5.) ~2000 active arev files, largest have over 5 million records.
6.) Some automated tasks that run heavy read/write activity.
7.) 200+ users.
8.) System ran the other day restoring 500k records from active log with no problems. System ran today with large amount of SQL activity and proceeded to hang after 5 hours.
9.) NLM parameters were 5000 and 16384 with M set to 12.
10.) The parameters have now been increased to 10000 and 32768 with M being set to 8.
11.) When system hangs, sys admin notices unusually high amount of low level threads in the server.
12.) We have another server and the same problems occur there as well.