Runaway QTP process

Pickering, John (NORBORD) PICKERIJ@norbord.com
Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:32:18 -0400


OK, I'll give you my best sonsultants' answer ...

"looks OK now, give me a call the next time it happens"

 :-)
JWP

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Abraham Zwygart [SMTP:azcognos@anodizing.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:26 PM
> Cc:	PowerHouse ListServer (E-mail)
> Subject:	Re: Runaway QTP process
> 
> "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" wrote:
> 
> > A couple of things ...
> >
> > - if nothing else is running then, sure, Qtp will consume as much of the
> > machine as possible [and what's wrong with this?]
> 
> There were 15+ jobs and 110+ users were logged  on.  It would take a
> couple of
> minutes to get the ':' prompt to re-appear.
> 
> > - has your ES queue been fiddled to give it a higher than default
> priority?
> 
> no
> 
> > - those look like CM ksam files and you're using an NM Qtp -- lots of
> > switching going on
> 
> They are both NM ksams
> 
> > - how random is the ack-die-item ksam? i.e. if records for the same work
> > order are all over the file then you'll force a lot of disc head
> movement
> 
> Not sure
> 
> > - you don't say what model of 3k you have but half an hour to read 600k
> > records and link to who knows how many other records doesn't seem over
> the
> > top to me
> > - is it possible that something else had one of the files locked? Qtp
> would
> > just sit there trying to lock both files
> 
> Just siting there would be OK.  Why was it taking almost all of the cpu
> cycle's
> 
> > And how long did it take Quiz to find the records?
> 
> quiz about 5 minutes, new qtp 2 minutes
> The original qtp program ran over a hour before the HP was bounced.
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > JWP << File: Card for Abraham Zwygart >> 
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