Thanks much for this information!! I'll probably implement this fix
using your work around.

George

John Lawrence wrote:
>
> George,
>
> We had a big issue with this problem a while back with 6.1.1 on Solaris.  As
> someone stated, it is an indication of contention with the media database
> from bootstrap or nsrim -MX.  We greatly reduced the number of times this
> problem was encountered (from several times a day to once a month) by
> implementing a cron job to keep nsrim from running as often.  The cron job
> touches the temp file which determines when nsrim will be run... if the date
> of this file is less than 24 hours old, nsrim will skip.  Here are the cron
> entries that will reduce nsrim to one run per week at 8 am:
>
> # Adding entry to provide work around for media database contention
> #
> 3 8 * * 0,1,3-6 touch /nsr/mm/nsrim.prv
> 3 20 * * 0,2-6 touch /nsr/mm/nsrim.prv
>
> We had an escalation open on this (LGTpa37258)and a hot fix was developed
> but we did not implement it since we had good results with the work around.
> The fix is also in NW 7 and possibly 6.1.2.
>
> ~JohnL
>
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Dell Computers
>
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