How do you know that the problem is caused by UXACTION.LOG? Have you
tried editing the job to exclude this file to see if you still have the
same problem? Some other thing to check:

1. Anti-virus software: do you have any running on this server? If so,
try unloading it or disable outbound scanning.

2. Hyperthreading: is this enabled? If so, disable it as it can cause
problems on NetWare.

3. Check in Monitor-->Kernel-->Busiest Threads when the server hits
100% to see which NLMs are causing the high utilization.

Chris

"Chris" wrote:
>How do you know that the problem is caused by UXACTION.LOG? Have you
>tried editing the job to exclude this file to see if you still have the
>same problem? Some other thing to check:
>
>1. Anti-virus software: do you have any running on this server? If so,
>try unloading it or disable outbound scanning.
>
>2. Hyperthreading: is this enabled? If so, disable it as it can cause
>problems on NetWare.
>
>3. Check in Monitor-->Kernel-->Busiest Threads when the server hits
>100% to see which NLMs are causing the high utilization.
>
>Chris

When the job starts some NSS errors appear. These errors point to the UXaction.log.

Anti-virus is turned off during backup.
Processor is a P3 1000Mhz, no hyperthreading.
The busiest thread is a thread owned by SERVER itself.

After Googling some more I stumbled across this thread:
Forum/Group: novell.support.open-enterprise-server.netware.abends-hangs

Subject: NW65SBS-SP3 server stall: Related to snapshotpool??
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:11:00 UTC

I disabled OFO and the problem was gone.

Peter wrote:

>
> "Chris" wrote:
> > How do you know that the problem is caused by UXACTION.LOG? Have you
> > tried editing the job to exclude this file to see if you still have
> > the same problem? Some other thing to check:
> >
> > 1. Anti-virus software: do you have any running on this server? If
> > so, try unloading it or disable outbound scanning.
> >
> > 2. Hyperthreading: is this enabled? If so, disable it as it can
> > cause problems on NetWare.
> >
> > 3. Check in Monitor-->Kernel-->Busiest Threads when the server hits
> > 100% to see which NLMs are causing the high utilization.
> >
> > Chris
>
> When the job starts some NSS errors appear. These errors point to the
> UXaction.log.
>
> Anti-virus is turned off during backup.
> Processor is a P3 1000Mhz, no hyperthreading.
> The busiest thread is a thread owned by SERVER itself.
>
> After Googling some more I stumbled across this thread:
> Forum/Group:
> novell.support.open-enterprise-server.netware.abends-hangs
>
> Subject: NW65SBS-SP3 server stall: Related to snapshotpool??
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:11:00 UTC
>
> I disabled OFO and the problem was gone.

OK, but disabling OFO isn't really a fix though is it? I think the real
issue is: why is the entry in NOVELL.NKS being ignored? Take a look at
the following TechNotes:

http://support.veritas.com/docs/269132
http://support.veritas.com/docs/274776

Good info! I didn't know about the [tab] causing problems. Probably
what I had done before that caused it to fail.

-Barry.

Barry St.John wrote:

> Good info! I didn't know about the [tab] causing problems. Probably
> what I had done before that caused it to fail.
>
> -Barry.

Yep, that has caught me out one or twice in the past as well :-)

Chris