Replication and SP3

  • We were replicating data from our production server to two other servers (only 4 tables) and CPU usage on production server was about 60%(4 cpu's).

    After applying SP3 our cpu usage went to 80-95%. I stopped replication and it went back again to 45-55%.

    This high cpu consumption causes high amount locks being imposed (do not know if this is cause or the effect).

    Any suggestion?

    Server config

    Win2k, SQL EE 2000, Transaction replication

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  • A couple of little things I can think of:

    * big distribution database (are your distribution cleanup jobs working). If msrepl_commands gets really big, I've known replication to slow down (mostly on systems with LOTS of logreaders)

    * index and statistics up to date

    * Is the distribution queue caught up? I.e., are you backlogged with tons of transactions that haven't been delivered?

    * Verify that your profiles are using the correct poll and batch sizes.

    Of course, I would definitely attempt to reproduce this scenario on another test server, to make sure that SP3, indeed, is causing you heartburn.

  • Thanks for the input msrepl_command is more than 357K rows, how can I reduce it

  • Dphilip - great reply!

    Is your log reader still running and posting commands? There should be a clean up job that runs, is it? Or do you have subscriptions that aren't being used and haven't expired yet?

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

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