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Re: [Networker] inactivity timeout question

2012-06-05 16:55:52
Subject: Re: [Networker] inactivity timeout question
From: Bombay4u None <bombay4u AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 20:51:27 +0000
I would be of the openion that increasing timeout in milisecounds on the server 
side may have triveal  affects , if RPC services are bing affected , it may not 
respond for longer then few secounds or longer, so fixing the root cause may be 
your preferred solution.
Hope that helps
Fazil Saiyed


> Subject: Re: [Networker] inactivity timeout question
> From: rethmeier.rainer AT web DOT de
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 20:32:03 +0200
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU; bombay4u AT HOTMAIL DOT COM
> 
> Hi,
> I know that there is a way to increase the the value for the TCP/IP timeout 
> in miliseconds. This is a registry setting. I cannot remember the name, can 
> possibly
> find by Google or at Microsoft.
> On the other side it is a good hint to decrease the number of clients in the 
> groups, properly the workload on the nic is to high.
> Regards Rainer
> 
> Am 05.06.2012 um 16:30 schrieb Bombay4u None:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Have you monitored the backup server resorces including network utilization 
> > and ports ? perhaps your server is busy, staggering start time and smaller 
> > groups or adding a storage node may be the answer, follow the best 
> > practices for the networker.
> > Another temporary fix may be to add addtional bandwith on the server ( 
> > network & or Memory\CPU).
> > Hope that helps
> > Fazil Saiyed
> > 
> > 
> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 14:51:09 +0100
> >> From: farske10 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM
> >> Subject: Re: [Networker] inactivity timeout question
> >> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> >> 
> >> Hi Christian,
> >> 
> >> I have seen similar instances of this where the fault lies with the 
> >> backup server DB unable to handle all the communication.
> >> If you monitor the load on the backup server resources does it use lots 
> >> of memory and many disk I/O's??
> >> I spread the load of the backups by creating more groups and putting a 
> >> maximum of 20 to 25 clients per group.
> >> if you can do this also stagger the start times to prevent the memory 
> >> usage and disk I/O from peaking.
> >> I hope this helps.
> >> Andy
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 05/06/2012 13:47, Christian Jurecka wrote:
> >>> Hi everybody,
> >>> 
> >>> is there a recommended value for the client inactivity timeout?
> >>> I think I´ve read once that a bad value is one of several reasons for 
> >>> RPC-Errors.
> >>> 
> >>> Reason why I´m asking is: Some nights we get a big lot of RPC errors, 
> >>> especially after our three big groups start. Each of these groups 
> >>> contains 50 to 60 clients (windows and linux), they are scheduled with a 
> >>> time difference of 30 minutes.
> >>> Inactivity timeout is set to 60.
> >>> 
> >>> The message looks like that:
> >>> nsrindexd RPC error: Aborting client connection from "IP-address"; why = 
> >>> A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly 
> >>> respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because 
> >>> connected host has failed to respond.
> >>> 
> >>> Server is W2K3, Networker Version of Server and Storage nodes ist 7.6.3.3
> >>> 
> >>> Regards, Christian
> >>> 
> >>> 
> > 
> 
                                          
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