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...swimming in OWSTIMER.EXE error messages....

Harry Corry posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 11:41 AM

Help!

The message below is being logged 100's of times every 15 seconds.
I've googled it to no avail.

I'm swimming in log files, it's consuming 2GB every 4 days! - obviously
i'm deleting them because i only have 2GB of space on C:

The message is being logged to:
extensions\12\LOGS"

Everything seems to be working fine, except for the problem with log
files eating all my free space.

It's SBS 2003 Premium, will all SPs and patches, and WSUS 3 and Sharepoint 3


TIA



The message----


08/11/2007 17:09:59.98 	OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0DE8)                   	0x0E30
Windows SharePoint Services   	Timer                         	5uuf
Monitorable	The previous instance of the timer job 'Config Refresh', id
'{975F79C9-1B0D-4D14-BD60-C531FF142500}' for service
'{6C881CF7-F11F-457B-A757-68862E0059E6}' is still running, so the
current instance will be skipped.  Consider increasing the interval
between jobs.
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C7DDAE.

Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP] posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 2:31 PM

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C7DDAE.41F5BC20
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

did you install Sharepoint 3 side by side with WSS 2 per the document on =
the SBS website?

--=20
Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
-------------------------------------------------
Microsoft MVPs
Independent Experts (MVPs do not work for MS)
Real World Answers
---------------------------------------------------------
Please do not contact me directly regarding issues

Help!

The message below is being logged 100's of times every 15 seconds.
I've googled it to no avail.

I'm swimming in log files, it's consuming 2GB every 4 days! - =
obviously=20
i'm deleting them because i only have 2GB of space on C:

The message is being logged to:
extensions\12\LOGS"

Everything seems to be working fine, except for the problem with log=20
files eating all my free space.

It's SBS 2003 Premium, will all SPs and patches, and WSUS 3 and =
Sharepoint 3


TIA



The message----


08/11/2007 17:09:59.98 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0DE8)                   0x0E30=20
Windows SharePoint Services   Timer                         5uuf=20
Monitorable The previous instance of the timer job 'Config Refresh', =
id=20
'{975F79C9-1B0D-4D14-BD60-C531FF142500}' for service=20
'{6C881CF7-F11F-457B-A757-68862E0059E6}' is still running, so the=20
current instance will be skipped.  Consider increasing the interval=20
between jobs.
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charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C7DDAE.41F5BC20--
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Yes Sharepoint is installed side by side as per the documentation.

Harry Corry posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 3:17 PM

Yes Sharepoint is installed side by side as per the documentation.
(sorry should have stated that).  Also I have stopped the original WSS2
site from within IIS (just to stop silly users from using it by mistake).

There don't appear to be any related errors in the Event Log.
reply

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C7DDB6.

Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP] posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 3:28 PM

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C7DDB6.3B7E7C80
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

what's the event number?

--=20
Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
-------------------------------------------------
Microsoft MVPs
Independent Experts (MVPs do not work for MS)
Real World Answers
---------------------------------------------------------
Please do not contact me directly regarding issues

Yes Sharepoint is installed side by side as per the documentation.
(sorry should have stated that).  Also I have stopped the original =
WSS2=20
site from within IIS (just to stop silly users from using it by =
mistake).

There don't appear to be any related errors in the Event Log.



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------=_NextPart_000_0075_01C7DDB6.3B7E7C80--
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EventID from the logfile is "5uuf"Maybe this is easier to

Harry Corry posted on Monday, August 13, 2007 3:52 PM

EventID from the logfile is "5uuf"

Maybe this is easier to read:

Timestamp
08/13/2007 20:20:44.98

Process
OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0DE8)

TID
0x0E30

Area
Windows SharePoint Services

Category
Timer

EventID
5uuf

Level
Monitorable

Message
The previous instance of the timer job 'Config Refresh', id
'{975F79C9-1B0D-4D14-BD60-C531FF142500}' for service
'{6C881CF7-F11F-457B-A757-68862E0059E6}' is still running, so the
current instance will be skipped.  Consider increasing the interval
between jobs.

Correlation
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...swimming in OWSTIMER.EXE error messages....

Harry Corry posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:12 PM

Anyone?

i'm still getting 1.2GB in log files per day!
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Hi Harry,I'm only guessing that since your running Sharepoint 3.

Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:21 PM

Hi Harry,

I'm only guessing that since your running Sharepoint 3.0, that this applies
to you.  Not sure at all what the OWSTIMER error means, but the procedure
below for Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration may help you get a handle on
your logs (and their size):

http://drunkmasterdev.blogspot.com/
---------------------------------------------
Things you should do after first installing Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007 Beta 2 (MOSS)

Pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

Open up c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server
extensions\12\logs, and watch them files grow!

Start up Task Manager, find wsstracing.exe, and note its' neurotic CPU
utilization and growing memory usage

Make the madness less visible by reducing tracing:

Start SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration (you might have to pause the
Windows SharePoint Timer service before you can actually get there -
especially if you're using a VPC - for whatever reason, OWSTIMER.EXE can
easily soak up whatever CPU cycles you have...)

Go to Operations

Under Logging and Reporting, choose Diagnostic Logging

Under Event Throttling, choose All as the category (this may be
unnecessary, as it could be the default, but judging by the amount of
logging, it probably isn't)

Under Trace Log, set "Number of log files" to something reasonable - say,
5. You can leave "Number of minutes..." to be 30, unless you want those 5
files to be smaller in size. At the default rate, a 30 minute trace file in
my case seems to be about 200MB.

Click on OK.

You can see that if you don't reduce logging amounts, you're likely to
run out of disk space on your system drive...
-------------------------------------------

--
Merv  Porter   [SBS-MVP]
============================
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Hi Merv,You are a legend!

Harry Corry posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:42 PM

Hi Merv,

You are a legend!
This cured the problem.  The even is no longer being logged!

Thanks - Harry
reply

Great Harry!

Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:49 PM

Great Harry!  Glad you are back in business again.

--
Merv  Porter   [SBS-MVP]
============================
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I found this same problem.thank you very much for the hints!

dario posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:42 PM

I found this same problem.
thank you very much for the hints!


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