[BUSY] workareas

I posted this question earlier, but it was embedded as part of a bigger question so I thought I'd strip it out here. Does anyone know what it means when Teamsite puts the text "[BUSY]" next to a workarea name (when viewing the contents of a branch)? I see this fairly regularly, but then it seems to come and go randomly and I haven't figured out what causes it.

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Migrateduser

I believe you'll see that when a lengthy bulk operation is taking place in that WA, such as a big submit, update, etc.

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Migrateduser

Bob is right - you can run iwstat -c to see what is happening....

felipel

When such an operation is taking place, what impact does that have on other Teamsite operations (i.e. creating/saving a DCR, browsing files, previewing files, etc.)? I'm a little fuzzy on how well Teamsite does multi-threading tasks. It seems like on our box, we get the "[BUSY]" fairly regularly, and when it happens all of Teamsite seems to skid to a crawl.

BTW, iwstat shows operations taking place (some fairly large) but the server is far from pegged. CPU usage (4 processors) isn't near maxed -- usually around 40 percent. Unless Teamsite doesn't handle threading well, it seems odd that it slows down when the server isn't maxed out.

james1

TeamSite servers are usually performance-bound by I/O rather than CPU. If you monitor your backing store's activity, you will probably see it maxed out, rather than your CPU.

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JamJamT

James,

What method do you recommend to monitor back stores activity?

james1

Sorry, I personally have no recommendations, since I know little of core system administration. But, I imagine that there are tools out there that allow you to monitor disk, network, and/or CPU activity/throughput.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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