Categories
Knowledge Support Support exacqVision Server Categories Products

Long-duration Archive Operations Delay or Stall Other Server Operations in Linux

Symptoms

When you configure archiving in a slow network environment or archive very large files, other server operations can be delayed or stalled. This can happen in any of the following situations:

  1. Archiving files over 1GB (the larger the file, the longer the delay)
  2. Archiving across a 10 Mbps connection or similar slow connection
  3. Archiving through a slow switch
  4. Archiving over DSL or other slow Internet service
  5. Configuring auto-export to an SMB network share located on a separate slow network

<br>

This situation can cause the following operations to be delayed indefinitely:

  1. Server shutdown.
  2. Notification e-mails used with event linking.
  3. Test Profile action while notification profiles are being configured.
  4. Display of updated drive and media status when Auto Export Media Refresh is activated in exacqVision Client.
  5. Burning to disc as part of auto-export profile used with event linking.
  6. Storage alarms as a result of Disk/RAID status monitoring (detecting disks or RAID volume configuration changes or monitoring SMART attributes).
  7. Configuration of RAID hot spares.
  8. Searching Active Directory to locate domain users or groups.
  9. Detection of display names for mapped Active Directory users/groups.
  10. Binding to Active Directory.
  11. Disconnection of connected clients and failed connection/re-connection attempts (related to Active Directory).
  12. IPC socket error log messages (related to Active Directory).
  13. Configuration of network interfaces.
  14. Configuration of archiving.

<br>

Affected Versions

This issue affects Linux-based exacqVision Desktop systems. This does not affect Windows or exacqVision Edge.

<br>

Workaround

The issues described in this article can be minimized through careful scheduling of archive tasks to avoid conflicts with other server operations. You can also archive to a target other than an SMB location.