The replication agent has not logged a progress message in 5 minutes. This might indicate an unresponsive agent or high system activity. Verify that records are being replicated to the destination and that connections to the Subscriber, Publisher, and Dis

Question

Does anyone know what is this mean and how to fix this?
I checked the records and they are not being replicated, and the connection to the subscriber are not active for some reason; but I don't know how to fix it.
Thanks
Philly Database developer

Answer 1

It basically means that the replication agent has not logged a status message back to the replication subsystem.
Basically you can't stop it, and these messages let you know if the agent has hung.
However you can delay the time before the subsystem will report this message. Do this by the following query - this will delay this message to 10 minutes from the default of 5 minutes. I have set this to days when replicating over ISDN/Phone lines.
USE master
exec sp_changedistributor_property
@property = N'heartbeat_interval',
@value = 10;
GO
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after changes below query...USE master
exec sp_changedistributor_property
@property = N'heartbeat_interval',
@value = 10;
GO still not working...