APPMSGARCH- Peopletools 8.44 SQL Server 2000 SP4

Question

We are starting testing with the delivered application engine on our tools release 8.44.06 for FSCM. We have App Message data going back to Go Live which we manually deleted so that now we have just 4 months of Application Messages in our Test system.
We have run several tests using APPMSGARCH. Running just Cancelled messages which runs fairly fast, and the other with processes 'DONE' messages. DONE messages runs forever and with SQL Profiler open you don't see any statements running on the active SPID. We have inplemented the one fix GSC mentions but not much change.
Has anyone found this similar behaviour? We are going to try another run with tracing initiated, but it seems like something is either processing very slow or something is looping. Either way its running very inefficiently.
Appreciate insight

Answer 1

160,000 messages to be archived is a lot. And it could run forever.
I have sometimes use some "workaround" to process a huge number number of messages.
What you could do is :
1. create a clone table of your message table
2. move the done messages into that table
3. insert into the real message table from the temp table by rows set of n rows (n = a reasonnable number, i.e. 2,000)
4. run the archivemsg process for these messages
Nicolas.