CPU was fine until this started happening. When this started, it pegged the CPU most of the time.
Full Inventory is set to Monthly, deltas set to daily, configuration requests set to hourly. We have about 1400 clients in 6 locations. One NS, with 7 Site Servers, one in each location with an extra Task Server at HQ to take some of the load off the primary NS.
I'm not sure about policy processing or task interval. The website has quit working now, so I can't check. I've had to shutdown all the services as well because this is overloading the server.
SQL performance is normally good, but is now overloaded with all this inventory processing.
Errors and warnings aplenty in the log viewer. So many I don't know where to start looking. Most say inventory file couldn't be processed for various reasons, deadlock being one of the reasons. Another being "the data class table cannot be empty". Doesn't say which one, but it can't be empty. I take that back. Two errors before that it says data class 986fa1db-628f-412a-9ed9-bf105816a3af can't be empty. I searched the DataClass table, and several others, and that GUID doesn't exist. Whatever happened to names? :-)
Everything appeared to be working fine until Monday, or so it seemed. Performance was a little slow, so it could have just been building up to this, or maybe I tweaked something wrong. My guess is I may have done something with policy processing or task intervals. I was poking around in the settings trying to improve performance, and may have set something wrong. Can't check now unless there is somewhere in the database I can check.
NSEs were not being processed until I moved the top level EventQueue folder over to the D: drive where it belongs(by stopping the Altiris Service and editing the registry). However, the other EvtQxxxx folders on the C: drive still get the files once EventQueue processes them. I'd like to get them moved over to the D: drive as well - without using any external utilities.
All EvtQxxxx folders were being processed until this morning when I stopped all Altiris services. I did this because the "bad" folders filled up the C: drive until there was no room left.