[Info-vax] A 5 minutes hang during early stage of a shutdown.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Ken Fairfield wrote 2013-01-22 19:48:
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 3:23:24 PM UTC-8, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Hi.
>> This isn't a show-stopper but I thought I'd ask if anyone
>> has seen anything like this before.
>>
>> $ tcpip sh ver
>>
>>     HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.5 - ECO 1
>>     on a COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz running OpenVMS V8.2
>>
>> $
>>
>> During the early stage of a normalt shutdown (with automatic
>> reboot), the system hangs for more or less exactly 5 minutes.
>>
>> The detached shutdown process is in QUEMAN.EXE and in LEF during
>> this period. The queues are "stopped" as far as I could see.
>> There was one queue in "stopped pending". This batch queue
>> had one job in MUTEX (the reason for the reboot). But, I have
>> seen this shutdown delay even without this MUTEX problem.
> [...]
>
> I have recollections from the v6.2-3 era, plus v7.3-2, of
> the shutdown "hanging" while stopping queues.  I don't think
> I was ever patient enough to wait 5 minutes to see if it
> would eventually continue. :-p
>

So what did you do?

> We were running DCPS for a whole bunch of print queues.
> IIRC, my solution was to be sure to stop all the DCPS
> queues before starting the shutdown.  I also seem to recall
> the hang being sometimes associated with a job in the queue
> that was "waiting" for some reason.
>
> Anyway, I'd recommend seeing whether stopping print queues
> help this situation at all.

Yes, I'll check that. We do use DCPS (2.7).

Thanks,
Jan-Erik.


>
>      -Ken
>