[cohey]

On your ARD admin machines, “Get Info” on the machine you want to disable reporting on. Under the “Data Settings” tab, I unchecked everything because I really have no need to audit my servers. I imagine similar results could be achieved by just unchecking the “File Search” option. Details on these features are on pages 159 and 160 of the ARD Administrator’s Guide.

Also, make sure you do this on all ARD admin machines you connect to your server with. If even just one still has this option checked, it will kick off that process.

Hope this helps!

[cohey]

My problem seems to have gone away as well. I had noticed a ‘build_hd_index’ process being kicked off by Apple Remote Desktop that was causing some other issues so I disabled indexing on all of my ARD Admin machines to prevent the process from starting on the server every night. I don’t know if it was coincidental or not but the catsearch problem is now not occurring. If I see the problem again or get any more insight on what was causing it I will post it up here.

Thanks for the help!

[cohey]

Thanks for your reply. We have a little larger scale setup.

[b]Setup:[/b]
We are using a Dual 2.3 G5 Xserve with 4GB RAM running 10.4.8 server (8L127). The volumes are stored on a directly connected Xserve RAID. This server is basically just running AFP. I typically have about 65 users simultaneously connected but the file sizes they are using/copying are very small (typically 300k-500k). Client systems are G4s/G5s running 10.4.x.

[b]Problem:[/b]
If a user does any kind of search on a network volume from the Finder, the side of the RAID where the volume is located indicates max activity, the server response slows for all users, some users get the “spinning beach ball,” the server CPU activity significantly increases. The search seems to never finish or return any results. If the user cancels the search, the symptoms continue for 10+ minutes. The user cannot eject the network volume. The only way to stop the symptoms is to determine which user initiated the search and manually disconnect them via Server Admin. Problem replicates on small ( 20GB ) and large ( 600+GB ) volumes. I have also tried deleting the .DS_Store files with no resolution.

[b]AFP Log sample:[/b]
IP 10.3.10.11 – – [22/Dec/2006:12:52:07 -0600] “CatSearch starting Advertising” 0 0 0
IP 10.3.10.11 – – [22/Dec/2006:12:52:07 -0600] “CatSearch starting Advertising” 0 -2147475424 0
IP 10.3.10.11 – – [22/Dec/2006:12:52:07 -0600] “CatSearch starting Advertising” 0 0 0
IP 10.3.10.11 – – [22/Dec/2006:12:52:07 -0600] “CatSearch starting Advertising” 0 -2147475424 0
IP 10.3.10.11 – – [22/Dec/2006:12:52:11 -0600] “CatSearch starting Advertising” 0 0 -5009

Our users usually don’t use Finder searching but once a few of them do (especially at the same time) it brings everything to a crawl. I would also like them to be able to use Finder searching if they need to. Let me know if you have any ideas or need any more info.

Thanks!

[cohey]

I am having the exact same issue on a very similar setup. Anyone have any luck finding a solution?

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