deployment crashes receiver OD. on large media files deployment

FanTom

We are on Solaris 9.0 on both source and target servers.

TS 6.5 OD 6.0, use Oracle 8i, -- but inserts to DB are external tasks in workflow.

The workflow is for Products category and data type and generally it has a good number of media files associated to the job. .swf's audio and video files. The total size of the content can be 600MB to 1.5GB. Yes, its enormous.

The deployment is transactional. When the job is kicked off, it is all good for some time and then over 5-6 mins, the receiver's OD dies off. There is an error stating "File not readable".

Thats not always true. Because very rarely, at times, when there is no other load on the server, the job completes although takes hours to do it.

I am not looking for a solution for the problem, but would like to gather some insight into best practices, suggestions and types of deployment to use. etc. I do know its not the size, but the count of files - is what matters for WF. However, in the industry, how have people implemented this, and would recommend?

I have tried to clear on what I am seeking, in this hurried post.
For all Guru's there, thanks in advance and your best replies are most appreciated.

N/-.,

Rohan_t1

We are on Solaris 9.0 on both source and target servers. TS 6.5 OD 6.0, use Oracle 8i, -- but inserts to DB are external tasks in workflow. The workflow is for Products category and data type and generally it has a good number of media files associated to the job. .swf's audio and video files. The total size of the content can be 600MB to 1.5GB. Yes, its enormous. The deployment is transactional. When the job is kicked off, it is all good for some time and then over 5-6 mins, the receiver's OD dies off. There is an error stating "File not readable". Thats not always true. Because very rarely, at times, when there is no other load on the server, the job completes although takes hours to do it. I am not looking for a solution for the problem, but would like to gather some insight into best practices, suggestions and types of deployment to use. etc. I do know its not the size, but the count of files - is what matters for WF. However, in the industry, how have people implemented this, and would recommend? I have tried to clear on what I am seeking, in this hurried post. For all Guru's there, thanks in advance and your best replies are most appreciated. N/-.,

Do you have the same version of OD on rcvr as well? Not sure it would help you but we had faced similar issue before (although the content was not of the size you have in your case), we ended up upgrading our OD base and rcvr servers which gave us better performance. We also had to tweak our scripts to reach to the desired performance level. This is just my case, may be others can share their exp and help you in better way.