PMImport Taking Way Longer

[Clint]

I'm running SMP 8.1 RU7 where I believe after updating to the latest Symantec Installation Manager (SIM) on 4/10/23, noticed that my pmimport process went from maybe 10-15 minutes to about 5+ hours!  Anyone else see this as well and know why this is happening now?

[Igor Perevozchikov]

Good morning Clint!

Is there any error, warning messages in NS logs that PMimport file is in use, etc?
Amount of selected languages and vendors isn't changed for PMimport?

Note:
SIM update doesn't cause any changes for resources import functionality of NS, therefore mostly this could be caused by current NS, SQL resources load/availability (CPU, Memory, HDD)

For such test purpose, I used VM machine where NS 8.1 RU7 and SQL on-box (and only 10GB of memory is available), PMImport took 22 minutes to import 
7zip, Microsoft, Mozilla, Notepad++, Rarlab, Winzip vendors

What amount of imported Bulletins and Updates you have in latest PMImport and in previous PMimport?

Best regards,
IP.

[Clint]

I noticed that the Altiris Host Object Service was using a lot of CPU for some reason so I had rebooted the SMP server yesterday and the pmimport ran in the timeframe I expected this morning.

Have no idea what prompted this issue as I haven't added any vendors to the import recently or for awhile now where unless I missed it, the logs didn't provide any clues.  The import would eventually finish but 5+ hours later.  Again, only change I made was update the SIM last week Monday.

[Igor Perevozchikov]

Atleast you can find what task or job was running at that time when Task Server was busy along with PMimport task running.
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