Recon jobs, should really only have to run weekly.. but good point..
purge jobs nightly..

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, dcharters <
dchart...@www.charterssoftware.com> wrote:

> Do you have AIE and/or Recon jobs running at all? Are those engines even
> installed anywhere?
> I have also seen this with special characters being passed in Diary fields.
> That was a few versions back but something to look at.
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:30:24 -0400, Reiser, John J wrote
> > Mark,
> >  I've been working with BMC Support since last week. They have had
> > me send many log files trying to capture an event but nothing has
> > shown up yet. I'll check into Spotlight.
> >
> > Theo,
> >  Already disabled escalations, alerts etc. I even disabled every
> > filter with a notify action because that was the first bit of
> > workflow that would send arserver.exe running away. The system still
> > overloads.
> >
> > Joe,
> >  I'll ask the VM admins to check the NIC settings. Since the SQL
> > Server is remote and on a huge SAN that side should be ok. The DBA
> > said he saw no unusual traffic to the ARSystem db.
> >
> > Rick,
> > There ARE FOUR Lights. Sorry can you tell I'm losing it.
> > The VM has 2 CPUs configured.
> > VMware Tools says version 8.3.7 build 341836.
> >
> > LJ,
> > I've been capturing Filter, thread, API, SQL logs and sent them to
> > BMC Support. They see no long queries or transactions that could be
> > causing the high cpu usage. I did combine sql and api. I'll add the
> > filter logs and see what kind of timing I get between the three.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > If BMC can't solve it today I think I'm going to use Misi's rrrChive
> > and export and reload the user data after we rollback the meta(?)
> >  data from before the problem started.
> >
> > ---
> > John J. Reiser
> > Remedy Developer/Administrator
> > Senior Software Development Analyst
> > Lockheed Martin - MS2
> > The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
> > Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. -
> >  paraphrased by me
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Walters, Mark Sent:
> > Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:59 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:
> > EXTERNAL: Re: arserver.exe is consuming 100% cpu - possible DB
> > corruption? (Long Post)
> >
> > Grab a copy of Spotlight on  Windows from www.quest.com and you can
> > use it to view the various threads within the arserverd.exe and work
> > out which one is causing the high CPU load. Once you have this you
> > can reference the thread/sql/api/filter logs to see what activity it
> > is.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > I work for BMC, I don't speak for them.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J Sent: 27
> > June 2011 22:27 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: arserver.exe is
> > consuming 100% cpu - possible DB corruption? (Long Post)
> >
> > Hello Listers,
> > ARS 7.6.03
> > MS 2003 Enterprise
> > MS SQL 2005 (remote)
> > Total home grown system. No OOTB modules.
> >
> > I have a real stumper here. It even has BMC scratching their heads.
> > I have a production system that is experiencing cpu overload that
> > runs up to 99 in the processes and sits there. The ARSystem server
> > is virtual machine. We thought maybe it was a MS "Patch Tuesday"
> > issue and we removed the 10 recent MS patches one at a time and
> > restarted the machine each time. The problem still exists after the
> > arserver service starts. Sometime immediately and sometimes it will
> > sit for 1- 20 minutes before it starts to hog the CPUs. To eliminate
> > any other OS and file system issues we grabbed a two week old backup
> > image of the server and restored it. The system came back ok for a
> > short while and then started to lock up the CPU again. Working with
> > BMC I set the logs on and restarted. We saw the system jump to 100%
> > within a minute and captured a 10MB arsql.log file. It can force the
> > overload at anytime by firing filter workflow with a notification
> > action in it. I disabled this one filter but the system still loaded
> > up. I added a Filter that ran a 0 and the only action was Goto 1000
> > to jump all Filter actions that fired on the change of the Status
> > field in question. Still no joy. I've disabled every piece of Notify
> > workflow. That worked the best and kept the system alive for longer
> > stretches but we can't run a system that way.
> >
> > I've come to the realization that there may be corrupted information
> > in the DB object tables and I wanted to get some feedback. Using
> > rrrChive I can pull a copy of every form's data since, say, two
> > weeks ago. Then have the DBA restore the entire system from that
> > date. After the restore I would use rrrChive to reload the two
> > weeks' data (Modified date' > "06/11/2011") and hope for the best.
> >
> > Any workflow that was changed in the last two weeks is negligible
> > and could be recreated/updated as needed.
> >
> > Do you think this is a viable solution?
> > When I asked the BMC tech if I could dump the T,H & B tables ;
> > restore the db and reload the T, H & B tables he reminded me that
> > the arschema and other meta tables would probably be out of synch.
> > That's when I thought of using rrrChive.
> >
> > Sorry to be so long winded but I need to get this back online, BMC
> > can't find anything in the logs and I don't want to lose the tickets
> > we've taken in the last week.
> >
> > ---
> > John J. Reiser
> > Remedy Developer/Administrator
> > Senior Software Development Analyst
> > Lockheed Martin - MS2
> > The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
> > Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. -
> >  paraphrased by me
> >
> >
>
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