Q282276: SMS: Deleting Numerous Ads Causes Delay in Offer Mgr Processing

Article: Q282276
Product(s): Microsoft Systems Management Server
Version(s): 2.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbMMC kbsms200 kbsms200bug kbAdvertisement kbSoftwareDist
Last Modified: 13-FEB-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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After you delete a large number of advertisements, subsequent offers of new
advertisements may be slow. In addition, new computers may be slow to receive
advertisements after joining a collection if the previous advertisement was
deleted.

CAUSE
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When you delete advertisements, Offer Manager creates a .del file for each
advertisement to be deleted. When processing a .del file, Offer Manager opens
and possibly modifies all .ins files on the site. Given a large site with many
clients, and many .ins files, this process can cause a lot of disk input/output,
and Offer Manager may be very slow to process the changes.

WORKAROUND
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To work around this issue, delete only a small number of advertisements at a
time.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are
listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: prodsms

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Keywords          : kbMMC kbsms200 kbsms200bug kbAdvertisement kbSoftwareDist 
Technology        : kbSMSSearch kbSMS200
Version           : :2.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbpending

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