Checkpointing is taking too much time

maffan76 · Post by **maffan76** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:18 am

Hi,
I am facing a problem in DS in execution of Job that Job take a minute to finish but the checkpointing is taking approx. 15-20 Mins to complete. I am clueless where to look for the slowness of the checkpointing. Any clue and guidance would be helpful.

Thanks in Advance.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:44 am

Checkpoints are a feature of Sequence jobs, is that what you mean? I don't see how that could take anything other than moments.

maffan76 · Post by **maffan76** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:22 am

Yes thats what surprising me as well in DS Director the step says "Checkpointing Job" and if you see the timings then the the taken by this step is 15-20 Minutes and the rest of the steps finish in 1-2 Minutes.
Where does DS do the checkpointing and is there any housekeeping required for DS to avoid delys in Checkpointing.[/img]

gateleys · Post by **gateleys** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:24 am

It should NOT take more than a few seconds. Does it take that long in all your sequence jobs?

maffan76 · Post by **maffan76** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:29 am

Yes in most of the cases

gateleys · Post by **gateleys** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:55 am

maffan76 wrote:Yes in most of the cases

Time to get the attention of your Support folks!!

maffan76 · Post by **maffan76** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:05 am

Local Support is not very helpful

as they are third party and they dont have right skill for DS.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:26 am

Can't help you there. Is your install disk... full? Or highly fragmented, perhaps? Anything else behaving oddly or literally just this?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:30 am

Are you certain that it is checkpointing that is slowing things down? If you turn it off does it actually much faster?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:42 pm

Take a look at the job control code generated by compiling the job sequence. Managing the checkpoints is a single function call. It ought to take hardly any time at all. I suggest that there is something else at fault here.