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 RTE 2147217871 Timeout Expired

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Gangrel189
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Posted - 2011-07-06 : 15:04:40
While running a VB6 application on a SQL 2005 SP2 database:

- Every day about twice a day a user gets a RTE 2147217871 Timeout Expired. Twice over the past couple months a complete system and SQL slow down has occurred where the entire application was getting RTE. The CPU did not move above 1% and I/O and memory were fine. SQL itself was running extremely slow trying to accomplish anything. After about 45 minutes of this the CPU suddenly and without any of our doing jumped up to 90% and within minutes SQL was running normally and up to speed.

-How do we go about getting to the problem of the RTE 2147217871 Timeout Expired if it is happening randomly throughout the day? Is there any advice that you might prevent as we are at the end of our ropes at this point

nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3385 Posts

Posted - 2011-07-06 : 15:54:00
Is the application running on the same machine as the server? If not which machine does the io and cpu monitoring come from?
Can't immediately think of anything that could cause this apart from blocking.

Slowdown like this usually happens due to something taking up all the io.

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