Content Type Publishing - Limitations?

Hi,
I am running into some problems with the Content Type Publishing in SP2010.
As background:
We have a farm with two SharePoint servers - one as WFE and one as App server. A third shared SQL cluster hosts our databases
we are on SP2 for SP2010
We have Project Server 2010 also installed, also on SP2
We have 3 web applications - one as our Content Type hub, and two consuming web apps (http://content, http://epm and http://scm).
The EPM Web App hosts our biggest site collection - roughly 150GB in size, and about 1900 sub webs
Our content hub hosts around 450 content types
We seem to have a problem with the sync never finishing. We are not sure how long this has been the case - we only recently noticed it while trying to apply some changes to the Content Types.
the timer job gets to 5% and then stays there "Running".
I am not even not sure how to monitor for errors in the ULS logs - I cannot seem to find the source for this. Its also difficult to enable Verbose logging for the entire time that it is running as it takes so long and causes our drives
to run out of space.
The question is, I suppose, does anyone else have experience in large situations like these? Are we perhaps running into a limitation? Is there anything that we should, or should not, be doing?
Thanks!
http://blogs.umtsa.co.za/nicoo

Hi,
Please try using PowerShell to update content type hub subscribers per the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaronsaikovski/archive/2010/08/26/updating-content-hub-subscribers-using-powershell.aspx
If it still doesn’t work, please try alleviate the workload of timer job. You could update one web application one time, see if overburden causes the issue.
Or you could remove or unpublished most of the content types and see if that will make any difference. See the script below:
function f($ct)
try
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite "http://sps/sites/hub"
$ctpub = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.ContentTypeSync.ContentTypePublisher($site)
$site.rootweb.availablecontenttypes | foreach-object{if($_.name -eq $ct){$ctpub.unpublish($_);write-host $_.name; write-host $ctpub.IsPublished($_) }}
catch [Exception]
Write-Host "Issue"
Or you could turning off the subscription of the consuming site collection, i.e. because some site collections have many subsites. Test the command to disable the feature “disable-spfeature taxonomyfieldadded -url http://....” before.
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