RE: Journaling and contention

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim D said:

>All this bulk writing to the database burns up 
>journal receivers at an incredible rate.  
>Every 1 - 2 minutes the system adds a new receiver.

I would try making the receivers bigger.

>Receivers are deleted at about the same average 
>rate, but they usually are deleted 5 or 6 at a time 
>as a COMMIT occurs (every 10,000 records, per job).

It sounds like an artificial commit cycle is being used.  Can you find a
more natural commit boundary, like by customer or invoice break?  Something
to reduce the number of pending commits.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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