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Conference vaxaxp::vmsnotes

Title:	VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:	This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:	VAXAXP::BERNARDO

Created:	Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	703
Total number of notes:	3722

107.0. "Queue journal file still growing" by KERNEL::HEGARTYP (Virtually Real) Wed Jan 29 1997 10:03

    Hi,
    
    have a customer who's just upgraded from V5.5-2 to V6.1 and has
    problems with the queue manager journal file increasing in size and
    filling up the disk.
    
    he applied VAXQMAN02_070 but problem still exists or has at least
    occurred once since this ECO has beeen applied.
    
    does anyone know for sure if this ECO should fix this problem or is the
    only real fix to upgrade to a higher version??
    
    checked the link date/time of patched image and it is the newer one
    
    many thanks
    
    Paul
    UK CSC

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
107.1	Queue journal file still growing	KERNEL::FISHERC	`Thu Apr 10 1997 11:18`	12
	Hi, I have the same problem ie the queue journal file is still growing even after the customer has applied the vaxqman01 patch. He has agreed to install the latest one but as far as I can see there were no new fixes for this problem in it. Any ideas? Cust is on v6.2. Thanks in advance Claire
107.2	try this...	CUJO::SAMPSON	`Thu Apr 10 1997 23:10`	13
	> Any ideas? Yes; to make that journal file small again for a while, just issue the magic commands: $ MCR JBC$COMMAND DIAGNOSTIC 7 $ There! Wasn't that simple? HTH, Bob Sampson
107.3	Queue journal file still growing	KERNEL::FISHERC	`Mon Apr 14 1997 11:43`	19
	Thanks. That worked. Another qs on this. Is the following expected/normal behaviour? He has 8 batch queues, 79 terminal queues. At the time of sho que/full he had very few jobs running. Have not much details on the size it grows but the example he gave me is: grew to 425,000 blocks in since system startup(this was about 2 months). Will see how fast it grows in a day tommorrow. He has only one queue manager. The machine is a 4100 v6.2 and is in a single node cluster. The journal file never grew this size on 5.5-2. Claire
107.4	deja vu	CUJO::SAMPSON	`Mon Apr 14 1997 23:50`	11
	Claire, We're very much duplicating a discussion that has happened more than once before. Yes, the journal file does tend to grow very large for no apparent reason in V6. I haven't heard anything that indicates any fix in V7. MCR JBC$COMMAND DIAGNOSTIC 7 still works, though. Maybe a VMS maven/mogul would like to step in and tell us about the future of this "feature"... HTH, Bob Sampson
107.5	other journal files	CSC32::J_MANNING	`Tue Apr 22 1997 07:09`	9
	Hi, The diagnostic 7 command for JBC$COMMAND does not seem to work for anything except the default journal file. If you are running multiple queue managers in a cluster, how do you shrink the other journal files? John