stopping running jobs

Does anyone know how to stop a batch job that is running?

I was deleting a couple of branch on a temp store that I know longer need to delete anymore. I'm not concerned about getting the data, but I want to stop the batch. It's been 21 hours already and only halfway there.

Thanks

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jed

Talk to support. Depending on the TeamSite version you are running, their might be some low level CLT's and or backingstore hacks that can be run.

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Jed Michnowicz
jedm@sun.com
Content Management Engineering
Sun Microsystems

jed

I looked at some old emails...

First they had us run this:
/app/suncom/iw-home/private/bin/iwfsfix

(exact command supressed for your own protection....)

That did not work, so we had to manually make some changes. Either way, changing the backingstore without help from support will quickly destroy your content, so I would NOT try the iwfsfix on your own.

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Jed Michnowicz
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Content Management Engineering
Sun Microsystems

reddyl

Could you explain the details of what the batch job is doing

emcneill

Here is the output from iwstat


Store         Status
temp          Running
default       Running



ID     Thread  User     Duration   Store    Operation
0x3c5  0x1ab   emcneil  0.000      -        GetServerStatus
0x8    0x11    -        81550.518  default  Batch Jobs


Store: default
Batch Jobs (running):
Queued                        User       Job                                                                          Object ID
[Thu Nov 17 17:52:22 2005]    emcneil    Cleanup Destroyed Branch dev (714 areas left)                                0x000022500000000000000238
[Thu Nov 17 17:52:22 2005]    emcneil    Cleanup Destroyed Branch staging (4654 areas left)                           0x000022500000000000060e00                                                
[Fri Nov 17 09:05:21 2005]    root       Cleanup destroyed edition 2005_11_08_100018 (area 2005_11_08_100018)         0x0000201000000000005af5bf
[Fri Nov 17 09:05:34 2005]    root       Cleanup destroyed edition 2005_11_08_100017 (area 2005_11_08_100017)         0x0000201000000000005af4e7

jed

That is a very long running batch job. What version of TeamSite are you running? With a batch job running that long maybe you hit the same bug we did: 56894 Fixed in 6.5 SP2

Is your iwtrace.log being filled up with error messages? Something about a tag.

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Jed Michnowicz
jedm@sun.com
Content Management Engineering
Sun Microsystems

Adam Stoller

I'm not sure about killing the batch job - but according to the CLT documentation you should be able to use something like:

iwfreeze -j

I thought there was an iwkill command - but I can't seem to find it (perhaps just wishful thinking?).

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

emcneill

iwkill would be nice....

iwfreeze doesn't exactly solve my problem because I still need to run some other batch jobs which I can't run until the first ones finish. (They are still running!)

Thanks anyway

jed

I almost forgot..

There is an "iwabort" command, but it has failed me many times....

# ./iwabort
Usage: iwabort operation_id

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Jed Michnowicz
jedm@sun.com
Content Management Engineering
Sun Microsystems

smenon

iwabort is the CLT to use to kill a "batch job".

However, you must realize that by doing so, you might potentially leave some dangling references and content that you can never remove. For example, if your branch contained about 500 assets that were unique to the branch and was created/modified in that branch. By removing the branch, you have removed the root directory or the branch path from the system and the batch job is essentially walking all the content in the branch and removing where necessary. By killing the batch job, you might leave these 500 assets in the system with no way of getting to these because the branch is no longer visible. The only way you can get rid of this content is if you run a "iwmigrate" to migrate the contents of the store and then delete the original store.

I would recommend letting the batch job complete so that you are leaving things consistent in the backing store.

thanks

--Sunil Menon
Sr. Product Manager
Interwoven, Inc.