<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Rick Bakker wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>If you look at the Step History of that step in the workflow log,<br>doesit tell you anything?<br>Could be that it was a temporary error that was re-tried.<br><br>regards<br>Rick Bakker<br>hanabi technology<br><br>On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Carolyn A Fuller <<a href="mailto:fuller@mit.edu">fuller@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Recently, my end users have started complaining about the performance of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">some of their workflow background steps. They said that this has just<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">recently become a problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Today, I looked at the logs for one of the excessively slow workflow<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">background steps and it indicated that the background step was created<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">at 14:37:49, then started and ended over an hour later at 15:40:06. This<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">step normally takes less than a second to execute.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What could cause the hour delay between when the step was created and when<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the step actually started and ended?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The workflow in question is using XML persistence. I converted this workflow<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to using XML persistence about a year and a half ago.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">---<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Carolyn Fuller<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Senior Analyst/ Programmer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Information Services and Technology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Room W92-210<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cambridge, MA 02139<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(617) 253-6213<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://fuller.mit.edu/">http://fuller.mit.edu/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SAP-WUG mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:SAP-WUG@mit.edu">SAP-WUG@mit.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>SAP-WUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SAP-WUG@mit.edu">SAP-WUG@mit.edu</a><br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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