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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server on
windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS file
handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000652000
..
what is the cause and solution ?
NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
updated upto date .
3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
for addressing the issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
-Sue
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
<maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server on
>windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
>SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
>than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
>Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS file
>handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000652000
>.
>what is the cause and solution ?
>NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
>2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
>updated upto date .
>3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
>
|||Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
We also get the below error on the application side :-
" Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with another
process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the transaction. "
Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
transactions .
Thanks for cooperation
"Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:

> This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
> for addressing the issue:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
> -Sue
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
> <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
|||You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT only)
use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirror
to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the true
OLTP activity.
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.sqlblog.com/
http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
"maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
> We also get the below error on the application side :-
> " Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with
> another
> process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the
> transaction. "
> Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
> Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
> transactions .
> Thanks for cooperation
> "Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:
|||Thank you all,
Our programmers are working on it.
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:

> You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT only)
> use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirror
> to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the true
> OLTP activity.
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.sqlblog.com/
> http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
>
>
> "maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...
>
>

I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server o
n
windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS
file
handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x0000000065200
0
.
what is the cause and solution ?
NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
updated upto date .
3- this error is generated on application peak hours .This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
for addressing the issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstor.../21/642314.aspx
-Sue
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
<maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server
on
>windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
>SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
>than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
>Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS
file
>handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x000000006520
00
>.
>what is the cause and solution ?
>NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
>2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
>updated upto date .
>3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
>|||Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
We also get the below error on the application side :-
" Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with another
process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the transaction.
"
Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
transactions .
Thanks for cooperation
"Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:

> This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
> for addressing the issue:
> [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx[/url
]
> -Sue
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
> <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>|||You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT only)
use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirror
to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the true
OLTP activity.
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.sqlblog.com/
http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
"maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
> We also get the below error on the application side :-
> " Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with
> another
> process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the
> transaction. "
> Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
> Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
> transactions .
> Thanks for cooperation
> "Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:
>|||Thank you all,
Our programmers are working on it.
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:

> You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT onl
y)
> use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirro
r
> to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the tru
e
> OLTP activity.
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.sqlblog.com/
> http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
>
>
> "maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...
>
>sql

I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server on
windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS file
handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000652000
.
what is the cause and solution ?
NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
updated upto date .
3- this error is generated on application peak hours .This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
for addressing the issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
-Sue
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
<maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server on
>windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
>SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
>than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
>Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS file
>handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000652000
>.
>what is the cause and solution ?
>NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
>2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
>updated upto date .
>3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
>|||Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
We also get the below error on the application side :-
" Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with another
process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the transaction. "
Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
transactions .
Thanks for cooperation
"Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:
> This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
> for addressing the issue:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
> -Sue
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
> <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual server on
> >windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
> >
> >SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer
> >than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
> >Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS file
> >handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000652000
> >.
> >
> >what is the cause and solution ?
> >
> >NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
> >2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
> >updated upto date .
> >3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
> >
>|||You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT only)
use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirror
to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the true
OLTP activity.
--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.sqlblog.com/
http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
"maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...
> Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
> We also get the below error on the application side :-
> " Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with
> another
> process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the
> transaction. "
> Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
> Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
> transactions .
> Thanks for cooperation
> "Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:
>> This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
>> for addressing the issue:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
>> -Sue
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
>> <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual
>> >server on
>> >windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
>> >
>> >SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking
>> >longer
>> >than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
>> >Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS
>> >file
>> >handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
>> >0x00000000652000
>> >.
>> >
>> >what is the cause and solution ?
>> >
>> >NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
>> >2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
>> >updated upto date .
>> >3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
>> >
>>|||Thank you all,
Our programmers are working on it.
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:
> You may consider ensuring that your reporting queries (I assume SELECT only)
> use snapshot isolation level. Better still would be to replicate or mirror
> to a reporting server which will handle the queries independent of the true
> OLTP activity.
> --
> Aaron Bertrand
> SQL Server MVP
> http://www.sqlblog.com/
> http://www.aspfaq.com/5006
>
>
> "maslooki" <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1D25A567-53FF-4667-9D3D-39F50D1F7FD7@.microsoft.com...
> > Thank you MR.Sue Hoegemeier for reply
> >
> > We also get the below error on the application side :-
> > " Transaction (Process ID 57) was deadlocked on lock resources with
> > another
> > process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Return the
> > transaction. "
> >
> > Please again what is the cause and solution for this error ?
> >
> > Note :- This happens on peak hours when they generate Reports and upload
> > transactions .
> >
> > Thanks for cooperation
> >
> > "Sue Hoegemeier" wrote:
> >
> >> This blog entry explains the error and offers suggestions
> >> for addressing the issue:
> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
> >>
> >> -Sue
> >>
> >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:02:11 -0700, maslooki
> >> <maslooki@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >We get below error in MS SQL 2005 server which is fail over virtual
> >> >server on
> >> >windows 2000 advanced servers clusterring.
> >> >
> >> >SQL Server has encountered 16 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking
> >> >longer
> >> >than 15 seconds to complete on file [Y:\Microsoft SQL
> >> >Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\tempdb.mdf] in database [tempdb] (2). The OS
> >> >file
> >> >handle is 0x00000768. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> >> >0x00000000652000
> >> >.
> >> >
> >> >what is the cause and solution ?
> >> >
> >> >NOTE:- 1- there are no sql 2005 service packs installed.
> >> >2- all HP Servers hardwares and HP SAN Storage drivers and firmwares are
> >> >updated upto date .
> >> >3- this error is generated on application peak hours .
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
>

I/O request taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
0x000001e856fa00
We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
- it came back with no problems.
We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
causing the problem.
It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
month or so since it happened before that.
Jim
On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues look
like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on that
physical drive array or is it shared?
--
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The
> OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
> which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
> components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
on this subject, especially this one:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx
Linchi
"Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||Linchi:
Thank you - we reviewed the article this morning and it is not applicable to
this situation.
Jeff
"Linchi Shea" wrote:
> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
> on this subject, especially this one:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx
> Linchi
> "Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> > 0x000001e856fa00
> >
> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> > - it came back with no problems.
> >
> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||Jim:
Thank you. Our disk has 97% space availability. We did run defrag after
getting your feedback but unfortunately that didn't resolve the problem
because we more of these messages afterwards.
Jeff
"Jim Holcomb" wrote:
> I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
> causing the problem.
> It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
> again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
> month or so since it happened before that.
> Jim
> On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> > 0x000001e856fa00
> >
> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> > - it came back with no problems.
> >
> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>|||Andrew:
Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch processes
which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are stored
is shared, but not that directory.
Jeff
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues look
> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on that
> physical drive array or is it shared?
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The
> > OS
> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> > 0x000001e856fa00
> >
> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
> > which
> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
> > components
> > - it came back with no problems.
> >
> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>
>|||> the drive where the log file and database are stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it prevents
data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different drive
will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
--
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
>> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues
>> look
>> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on
>> that
>> physical drive array or is it shared?
>> --
>> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
>> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
>> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete
>> > on
>> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7).
>> > The
>> > OS
>> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
>> > 0x000001e856fa00
>> >
>> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
>> > which
>> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
>> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then
>> > worked
>> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
>> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
>> > components
>> > - it came back with no problems.
>> >
>> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could
>> > this
>> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>>|||So I take it you are saying this happens most when the batch jobs are being
run. If so then this is a prime candidate for seeing issues like this.
Anytime you do heavy write activity in SQL Server you will always have
issues to some degree with the data and log files on the same physical disk
or disk array. If this is a single disk drive and not a disk array you can
easily get I/O contention. You should think about adding another disk or
disk array as Dan mentioned to house the log files and nothing else.
--
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
>> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues
>> look
>> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on
>> that
>> physical drive array or is it shared?
>> --
>> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
>> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
>> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete
>> > on
>> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7).
>> > The
>> > OS
>> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
>> > 0x000001e856fa00
>> >
>> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
>> > which
>> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
>> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then
>> > worked
>> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
>> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
>> > components
>> > - it came back with no problems.
>> >
>> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could
>> > this
>> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>>|||Make sure your batch jobs are set to not overlap at all to allow most
breathing room for the server.
--
TheSQLGuru
President
Indicium Resources, Inc.
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
>> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues
>> look
>> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on
>> that
>> physical drive array or is it shared?
>> --
>> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
>> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
>> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete
>> > on
>> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7).
>> > The
>> > OS
>> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
>> > 0x000001e856fa00
>> >
>> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
>> > which
>> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
>> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then
>> > worked
>> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
>> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
>> > components
>> > - it came back with no problems.
>> >
>> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could
>> > this
>> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>>|||We moved the log file to a different RAID drive but found that while it
lessened the number of these messages considerably, it did not eliminate them.
"Dan Guzman" wrote:
> > the drive where the log file and database are stored
> > is shared, but not that directory.
> Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
> Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it prevents
> data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
> provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different drive
> will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
> --
> Hope this helps.
> Dan Guzman
> SQL Server MVP
> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
> > Andrew:
> >
> > Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> > lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> > processes
> > which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> > operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> > responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> > stored
> > is shared, but not that directory.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
> >
> >> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
> >> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues
> >> look
> >> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on
> >> that
> >> physical drive array or is it shared?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> >>
> >> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
> >> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> >> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> >> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete
> >> > on
> >> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7).
> >> > The
> >> > OS
> >> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> >> > 0x000001e856fa00
> >> >
> >> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
> >> > which
> >> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> >> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then
> >> > worked
> >> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> >> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
> >> > components
> >> > - it came back with no problems.
> >> >
> >> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could
> >> > this
> >> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>|||> We moved the log file to a different RAID drive but found that while it
> lessened the number of these messages considerably, it did not eliminate
> them.
I'm glad you're making progress. The bottom line is that you'll need to
either reduce the batch workload or increase disk I/O capacity.
How are the disks configured now (RAID and number of spindles)? Do you have
any other processes besides SQL Server that may be contributing to the I/O
workload?
Have you reviewed the batch schedule as TheSQLGuru and Andrew suggested?
Since you are still getting the warning, it appears you are attempting more
concurrent work than your I/O subsystem and server can handle. In that
case, you'll probably improve batch throughput and reduce the warning
messages by adjusting the schedule. Running SQL queries serially instead of
concurrently can also improve buffer efficiency and reduce I/O workload.
Aside from changing the batch schedule, it's possible that application
tuning or redesign can reduce I/O demand. Check I/O intensive queries to
see if there is room for improvement. Adding more disks (and perhaps RAID
changes) will increase I/O capacity but I don't recommend throwing hardware
at this problem unless you are certain it's a supply and demand issue.
Also, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/21/642314.aspx
and monitor the disk performance counters during batch processing.
--
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D20393B9-2554-46A1-A1FD-509624F07A5A@.microsoft.com...
> We moved the log file to a different RAID drive but found that while it
> lessened the number of these messages considerably, it did not eliminate
> them.
> "Dan Guzman" wrote:
>> > the drive where the log file and database are stored
>> > is shared, but not that directory.
>> Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
>> Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it
>> prevents
>> data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
>> provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different
>> drive
>> will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
>> --
>> Hope this helps.
>> Dan Guzman
>> SQL Server MVP
>> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
>> > Andrew:
>> >
>> > Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
>> > lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
>> > processes
>> > which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
>> > operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
>> > responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
>> > stored
>> > is shared, but not that directory.
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>> >
>> >> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
>> >> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk
>> >> queues
>> >> look
>> >> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on
>> >> that
>> >> physical drive array or is it shared?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>> >>
>> >> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>> >> > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL
>> >> > log:
>> >> > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
>> >> > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to
>> >> > complete
>> >> > on
>> >> > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms]
>> >> > (7).
>> >> > The
>> >> > OS
>> >> > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
>> >> > 0x000001e856fa00
>> >> >
>> >> > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on
>> >> > this
>> >> > which
>> >> > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue.
>> >> > We're
>> >> > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then
>> >> > worked
>> >> > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine,
>> >> > 5
>> >> > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
>> >> > components
>> >> > - it came back with no problems.
>> >> >
>> >> > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log.
>> >> > Could
>> >> > this
>> >> > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>|||Finally how did you resolve this issue?
TIA,
--
Manoj Kumar
"Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
> Linchi:
> Thank you - we reviewed the article this morning and it is not applicable to
> this situation.
> Jeff
> "Linchi Shea" wrote:
> > > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> >
> > In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
> > on this subject, especially this one:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx
> >
> > Linchi
> >
> > "Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
> >
> > > We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> > > 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> > > occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> > > file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> > > file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> > > 0x000001e856fa00
> > >
> > > We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> > > lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> > > running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> > > extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> > > iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> > > - it came back with no problems.
> > >
> > > We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> > > be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||Please post if the issue is resolved and what steps were taking to
resolve the issue.

I/O request taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
0x000001e856fa00
We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
- it came back with no problems.
We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
causing the problem.
It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
month or so since it happened before that.
Jim
On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
|||What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues look
like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on that
physical drive array or is it shared?
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The
> OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
> which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
> components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
|||> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
on this subject, especially this one:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx
Linchi
"Jeffrey Howard" wrote:

> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?
|||Linchi:
Thank you - we reviewed the article this morning and it is not applicable to
this situation.
Jeff
"Linchi Shea" wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
> on this subject, especially this one:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx
> Linchi
> "Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
|||Jim:
Thank you. Our disk has 97% space availability. We did run defrag after
getting your feedback but unfortunately that didn't resolve the problem
because we more of these messages afterwards.
Jeff
"Jim Holcomb" wrote:

> I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
> causing the problem.
> It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
> again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
> month or so since it happened before that.
> Jim
> On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
|||Andrew:
Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch processes
which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are stored
is shared, but not that directory.
Jeff
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues look
> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on that
> physical drive array or is it shared?
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||> the drive where the log file and database are stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it prevents
data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different drive
will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
|||So I take it you are saying this happens most when the batch jobs are being
run. If so then this is a prime candidate for seeing issues like this.
Anytime you do heavy write activity in SQL Server you will always have
issues to some degree with the data and log files on the same physical disk
or disk array. If this is a single disk drive and not a disk array you can
easily get I/O contention. You should think about adding another disk or
disk array as Dan mentioned to house the log files and nothing else.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
|||We moved the log file to a different RAID drive but found that while it
lessened the number of these messages considerably, it did not eliminate them.
"Dan Guzman" wrote:

> Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
> Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it prevents
> data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
> provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different drive
> will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
> --
> Hope this helps.
> Dan Guzman
> SQL Server MVP
> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...
>

I/O request taking longer than 15 seconds to complete

We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (7)
. The OS
file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
0x000001e856fa00
We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this which
lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware component
s
- it came back with no problems.
We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
causing the problem.
It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
month or so since it happened before that.
Jim
On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:n">
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (
7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this whi
ch
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware compone
nts
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues look
like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on that
physical drive array or is it shared?
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (
7). The
> OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this
> which
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware
> components
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this whi
ch
In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dorr
on this subject, especially this one:
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx[/url
]
Linchi
"Jeffrey Howard" wrote:

> We're periodically getting the following error message in the SQL log:
> 07/27/2007 03:42:19,spid2s,Unknown,SQL Server has encountered 21
> occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on
> file [E:\mssql\data\centfwamms_log.ldf] in database [centfwamms] (
7). The OS
> file handle is 0x000006D4. The offset of the latest long I/O is:
> 0x000001e856fa00
> We reviewed Microsoft support notes and other forum discussion on this whi
ch
> lead us to believe this might be indicative of a hardware issue. We're
> running SQL on an HP ML150 G3, with SBS 2003 Premium R2. We then worked
> extensively with HP support and ran a detailed diagnostics routine, 5
> iterations, which consumed 12+ hours and interrogated all hardware compone
nts
> - it came back with no problems.
> We're not seeing any errors in the operating system event log. Could this
> be an erroneous message within SQL? What else to do?|||Linchi:
Thank you - we reviewed the article this morning and it is not applicable to
this situation.
Jeff
"Linchi Shea" wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> In case you have not, I'd suggest you review the notes/articles by Bob Dor
r
> on this subject, especially this one:
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/diagandcorrecterrs.mspx[/u
rl]
> Linchi
> "Jeffrey Howard" wrote:
>|||Jim:
Thank you. Our disk has 97% space availability. We did run defrag after
getting your feedback but unfortunately that didn't resolve the problem
because we more of these messages afterwards.
Jeff
"Jim Holcomb" wrote:

> I've seen this same problem and my suspicions are that the disk defrag is
> causing the problem.
> It only happens after hours when we've set the defrag to run. It happened
> again early this morning on one of our servers but it probably been a
> month or so since it happened before that.
> Jim
> On 2007-07-29, Jeffrey Howard <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wr
ote:
>|||Andrew:
Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch processe
s
which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are stored
is shared, but not that directory.
Jeff
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> What does the file stats look like? Does it indicate you have issues
> reading or writing to your data or log files? What do your disk queues lo
ok
> like when this happens on that drive? Are log files the only files on tha
t
> physical drive array or is it shared?
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> "Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messag
e
> news:C63FFFEE-84E6-4687-984A-1ECE699ED679@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||> the drive where the log file and database are stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
Consider moving log files to another drive, preferably RAID 1 or 10.
Separating data and log files a SQL Server Best Practice because it prevents
data file I/O from interfering with the transaction log writes and also
provides more recovery options. Moving the log files to a different drive
will likely mitigate the I/O warning messages too.
Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>|||So I take it you are saying this happens most when the batch jobs are being
run. If so then this is a prime candidate for seeing issues like this.
Anytime you do heavy write activity in SQL Server you will always have
issues to some degree with the data and log files on the same physical disk
or disk array. If this is a single disk drive and not a disk array you can
easily get I/O contention. You should think about adding another disk or
disk array as Dan mentioned to house the log files and nothing else.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>|||Make sure your batch jobs are set to not overlap at all to allow most
breathing room for the server.
TheSQLGuru
President
Indicium Resources, Inc.
"Jeffrey Howard" <JeffreyHoward@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E1CAA072-FDCE-4033-95E4-D9E0C5DF677E@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Andrew:
> Thank you. We're not seeing any other issues; this system is used very
> lightly by 1-2 users during the day time, but has a number of batch
> processes
> which run overnight. We rarely see these messages refer to daytime
> operations. We've got 97% disk space available; the system's sole
> responsibility is SQL; the drive where the log file and database are
> stored
> is shared, but not that directory.
> Jeff
>
> "Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:
>

Sunday, February 19, 2012

I need help please

Hello,
I started yesterday working with reporting services to get done some complex reports but I've encountered a lot troubles.
For example, I created one report and set both with and height for the body, then added one rectangle and inside of it, I dragged a Chart. Till then everything looked fine, but when I viewed the preview, my report is four page lenth and the charts appears on page 4 !!!
I've read in the newsgroups something about checking the vale of the Report.PageWith against the Body.Width, but WHERE CAN I FIND THE REPORT.PAGEWITDH ? is it withing the VS IDE '
Also, how can I add a "horizontal total" in a matrix '
I have the following layout for a matrix:
-- State (columns )
Month (rows) ... Units sold
My dataset returns these three fields
and I want something like ...
-- State (columns ) , Total Units
Month (rows) ... Units sold ...... , total units sold by month
My task is to create several reporting and each one will have several charts, lists and matrix.
Thanks
CesarSelect "Report" in the property browser. There would be PageSize property in
Layout category
Quoting from Books Online (
ms-help://MS.RSBOL80.1033/RSCREATE/htm/rcr_creating_structure_objects_v1_7vi
0.htm )
To add a subtotal to a matrix, add a subtotal to an individual group within
the matrix. Groups do not have subtotals by default. To add a subtotal to a
group, right-click the group column or row header and then click Subtotal.
This will open a new header for the subtotal. Reporting Services will
calculate the subtotal based on the aggregate in the data cell for the
group.
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Cesar" <Cesar@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DFB067AA-2DB6-4CEF-AC54-0C349FDE0E81@.microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I started yesterday working with reporting services to get done some
complex reports but I've encountered a lot troubles.
> For example, I created one report and set both with and height for the
body, then added one rectangle and inside of it, I dragged a Chart. Till
then everything looked fine, but when I viewed the preview, my report is
four page lenth and the charts appears on page 4 !!!
> I've read in the newsgroups something about checking the vale of the
Report.PageWith against the Body.Width, but WHERE CAN I FIND THE
REPORT.PAGEWITDH ? is it withing the VS IDE '
> Also, how can I add a "horizontal total" in a matrix '
> I have the following layout for a matrix:
> -- State (columns )
> Month (rows) ... Units sold
> My dataset returns these three fields
> and I want something like ...
> -- State (columns ) , Total Units
> Month (rows) ... Units sold ...... , total units sold by month
> My task is to create several reporting and each one will have several
charts, lists and matrix.
> Thanks
> Cesar