THanks, I will try switching to CANCEL EXPIRATION instead of using DURATION,
and see if that works.
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From: Bill Colwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 5:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EXPIRE INVENTORY shuts down
Wanda, I have seen this, sort of, and it is expected behavior, working as
designed.
When you run expire with duration, or use the 'cancel expiration' command as
I do,
the point where expire stops is recorded in the db. When you start it again
it starts at that point and continues either for the duration or until the
logical
end of the database is reached. If it reaches the end of the db, then
expire
considers that it has completed 1 pass over the database and quits.
When expire was improved, the code of course had a bug in it; hitting the
duration
did not store the stop point. The 'cancel exp' command did store the stop
point
which is why I use the command and not the duration parameter. At some
point the bug was fixed and that is probably when you started noticing the
change in behavior.
I run expire weekly, starting at 5 am, and a cancel expire command is issued
at
11 pm. The next week expire starts at 5 am but usually finishes around
noon.
Hope this helps,
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Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge, Ma.
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/30/01
at 05:11 PM, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>TSM 3.7.4 on AIX 4.3.3
>I have EXPIRE INVENTORY scheduled to run for 1.5 hours in the wee hours:
>EXPIRE INVENTORY QUIET=YES DURATION=90
>Sometimes EXPIRE INVENTORY runs OK.
>Other times it starts up, examines/expires 200-300 objects, then shuts
>itself down again in 2-3 minutes with the normal message of SUCCESS.
>Now I know it should be expiring 100,000+ objects per day.
>If I start it again manually, it takes off and runs as you would expect.
>Does anyone else see this happen?
>Any idea what causes the premature shutdown?
