No. Once you make it a Pull DP, it essentially becomes a sort of slaved client and uses BITS for the transfers.
DistMgr won’t move on to other packages until the PkgXferMgr reports back that the one it’s working on is done, so one very large package like this can tie everything up. Here’s a paraphrase from Todd about how the Pull DP is supposed to work: - Pull content from source DP and do the processing of the content locally - DistMgr creates a snapshot and calculates the HASH - PkgXferMgr sends a package info bundle (XML inside of .tar) to the PullDP - PullDP opens the XML and gets a list of content from the DPLocation DPUrl - PullDP component on the DP checks to see how many of the files are already loaded - PullDP component passes list of files to DTS - DTS creates BITS download job - CCMEXEC gets the files form BITS download location and writes them to disk - SMSDPProv imports the content into the Content Library - PullDP creates status messages and sends to Site Server However, you can end up encountering issues with large packages timing out, refreshes causing the already copied files to be deleted (meaning the whole thing starts over), and so on. Among his (supported) recommendations were increasing the DistMgr thread limit, increasing the query interval and timeout values, and making sure you’re at R2CU3 (some of the issues have been fixed over the course of the last few CUs). Hope that helps! -Phil _________________________________________________________________ Phil Schwan | Technical Architect, Enterprise Windows Services Microsoft VTSP (b-phs...@microsoft.com<mailto:b-phs...@microsoft.com>) Project Leadership Associates | 2000 Town Center, Suite 1900, Southfield, MI 48075 Lync: 312.756.1626 Mobile: 419.262.5133 www.projectleadership.net<http://www.projectleadership.net/> [linkedin_logo-19x20] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/philschwan> [Twitter-Logo1-20x20] <https://twitter.com/philschwan> [wordpress-logo3] <http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/author/philschwan> [Description: Description: Description: Arrow email]Lead with Strategy. Leverage Technology. Deliver Results. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:16 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck Funny this is… After I turned it into a PULL DP, the Schedule tab disappeared… aint’ that great? Guess have to reverse the changes, then back to PULL, unless there is still a hidden way. Nile Gilmanov Systems Administrator Wabash National Corporation nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com<mailto:nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com> | Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:11 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck Well… THANK YOU! I have been checking this thread every 15 minutes! Going to put this to the test right now! Nile Gilmanov Systems Administrator Wabash National Corporation nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com<mailto:nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com> | Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Magnus Tveten Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 4:57 PM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck Hmmmm I seem to remember one time being told that if a DP (well this was in SCCM2007, so a secondary site) rate limit was not ever at 100% it would only do one package at the time ? [cid:image001.jpg@01D00F20.77161390] So if I’m correct (huge chance I’m not) then from 7 am to 6pm it woudl only do one pacakge at the time... And we had ours at max of 90% so we always only had one package being processed at a time.. ________________________________ MAGNUS TVETEN SERVER SUPPORT ENGINEER CO CITRIX/SERVER Insurance Australia Group Limited Lvl 1, 23 Lakeside Drive, Burwood Burwood East VIC 3151 Australia T +61 3 8804 3226 M +61 411 010 460 E magnus.tve...@iag.com.au<mailto:magnus.tve...@iag.com.au> www.iag.com.au<http://www.iag.com.au> PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL. ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014 2:12 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU2 I believe per: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup Version REG_SZ 7958 Full Version REG_SZ 5.00.7958.1000 UI Version REG_SZ 7958 Phase REG_DWORD 0x1c7 ReplicationPhase REG_DWORD 0x0 Estimated Number of Clients REG_DWORD 0x0 Server Platforms REG_DWORD 0x20 User REG_SZ Organization REG_SZ Type REG_DWORD 0x1 ReplicationMode REG_DWORD 0x0 Installation Directory REG_SZ e:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager UI Installation Directory REG_SZ e:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole Product ID REG_SZ NONEVAL Provider Location REG_SZ wnclafsccfg01.Wabashnational.lan InstalledSqlExpress REG_DWORD 0x0 External File Directory REG_SZ E:\UpgradetoR2\SetupDL Stop Setup Monitoring REG_DWORD 0x1 CULevel REG_DWORD 0x2 PrerequisiteDir REG_SZ E:\UpgradetoR2\SetupDL IMO irrelevant but since I was there here is my SENDER Properties: Max Concurr. Settings----------------------- All sites: 5 Per site: 3 Retry settings--------- Number of retries: 2 Delay before retrying 1 Nile Gilmanov Systems Administrator Wabash National Corporation nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com<mailto:nile.gilma...@wabashnational.com> | Office: 765.772.2691 | Mobile: 765.414.7402 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Schwan, Phil Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:56 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] RE: Distribution Bottleneck Paging Mr. Todd Hemsell. Mr. Hemsell, you have a telephone call. ☺ Nile, what version of ConfigMgr 2012 are you running (SP/CU/etc.)? -Phil From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Gilmanov, Nile Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:35 AM To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:mssms@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [mssms] Distribution Bottleneck Was wondering if anyone here understands Distribution better than I as this is really frustrating: Basically I keep running into the same issue, every time I send a large package out it seems to bottle-neck everything else, even little things get stuck waiting for this huge package to complete. My environment is Primary Site, 3-4 DPs that get content directly from PRI, 2 PULL DPs that pull from one of the former DPs. WNCNLSCCMDP01 is a PULL DP, here its full status from the [Distribution Point Configuration Status] view in Monitoring: 12/3/2014 8:52:00 AM Distributing content Distribution Manager instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF1001E7" to distribution point "["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>". In Progress LF1001E7 12/2/2014 3:29:00 PM Processing content on site server Distribution Manager successfully processed package "Workstations_PatchUp_2014" (package ID = LF1001FA). In Progress LF1001FA 12/2/2014 8:05:00 AM Distributing content Distribution Manager instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF100167" to distribution point "["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>". In Progress LF100167 12/3/2014 9:17:00 AM Content is being distributed to the distribution point Package Transfer Manager is currently sending software distribution package LF10021B to distribution point server WNCNLSCCMDP01.CM12ROCKS.LAN, 89 percent of the sending has already completed. In Progress LF10021B 12/3/2014 2:34:00 AM Processing content on site server Distribution Manager successfully processed package "SCEP_Signatures" (package ID = LF1001F7). In Progress LF1001F7 12/2/2014 6:48:00 AM Distributing content Distribution Manager instructed Package Transfer manager to send package "LF1002DB" to distribution point "["Display=\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=LF1"]\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\<file:///\\WNCNLSCCMDP01.Cm12rocks.lan\>". In Progress LF1002DB I can confirm that LF10021B (29 GB in size by the way) is still getting sent to the DP. Per its SMSDPROV.log: [C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:26:57]:Content '9a596c68-ab09-4869-9c8c-1162d7211f2a' for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully [C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:27:00]:Content '1fcd38d1-413f-4b4c-86e1-ecec08966734' for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully [C74][Wed 12/03/2014 08:27:06]:Content '492b9f3f-e9e8-4a2f-94ec-eb905b7ad4a2' for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully [DF0][Wed 12/03/2014 08:28:01]:Content 'b3c03b56-886c-46a3-8ea7-ba0a6c90e309' for package 'LF10021B' has been added to content library successfully ONLY LF10021B is being distributed… WTH? Here is my settings in the primary site [Software Distribution Component Properties] window: ----Concurrent distribution settings--------------------- Maximum number of packages: 7 Maximum threads per package: 5 ----Retry settings--------------- Number of retries: 100 Delay before retrying: 30 ----Multicast retry settings----------- Number of retries: 3 Delay before retrying: 1 Any ideas guys??? I can’t seem to find a good resource online for distribution that addresses multitasking extensively. Thanks, Nile ________________________________ The information transmitted in this message and its attachments (if any) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. The message may contain confidential material and /or personal information. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this e-mail and associated material from any computer. ________________________________
