Thanks for the reply Eswar, I've found your blog to be so helpful over the years :)
In my case, I've cleaned up all of the jobs in sender, the backlog is actually in schedule.box. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Eswar Koneti <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't see a way to speed up rather waiting for the site server to > finish the jobs.backlogs could have caused if the respective component > manager was stopped or not responding to process the jobs. > If you really want to clear all the jobs (if you feel theu don't require > to process now), then i wold stop the sender component, delete the jobs(not > recommended ;) ) , more > > http://eskonr.com/2013/01/sccm-configmgr-find-packageid-from-sender-log-and-stop-the-process-which-is-being-sent-to-child-sites/. > > > Regards, > Eswar Koneti > www.eskonr.com > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Stephen Owen" <[email protected]> > Sent: March 19, 2014 8:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [mssms] Tips to deal with a backlog in Schedule.box on a 2007 > infrastructure > > Hi guys, > > We're having trouble this week getting a primary site to notice changes > to a package, and I realized there are nearly 2,000 .JOB files in the > schedule.box folder on this site. Looking through the messages, I don't > see any dead-giveaways as to what has caused this backlog either. I've > tried pausing then stopping Offer Manager, Hierarchy Manager, and > Distribution Manager, after reading Eswar's blog > http://eskonr.com/tag/site-control-manager/ and noting which components > create jobs to report their status up the chain. > > I then read this blog > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2010/07/16/understanding-site-to-site-communication-in-sms-sccm.aspxand > decided to stop ReplMgr as well, to try to keep the backlog from > getting worse. > > Looking at the schedule.box folder and the schedule and sender logs, > it looks like the scheduler is ever so slowly crunching through these > files. I need them cleared STAT for a Nomad implementation, however. > > Anyone have any tips as to ways I can speed up this process? I found > a ton of outdated jobs in sender refering to sites that no longer exist, so > I cleaned those up using preinst and then removed the files for them. > > Thanks, > > >

