How to Clear Sharepoint Config Cache

Posted by admin in Articles on 13. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

To clear the config cache on the farm, follow these steps:

Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm.
On the Index server, navigate to:                          
Server 2003 location: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the directory. 
Server 2008 location: Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the XML files from the [...]

Request timed out + This operation returned because the timeout period expired. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×800705B4)

Posted by admin in Sharepoint on 11. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments

Description:
Slow performance happens on your sharepoint site and users start getting “Request timed out” errors, after couple minutes the slow behaviour disappears and the site is accessible again.
Error message in the ULS Logs:
Possible deadlock detected while acquiring a readerlock.
An unexpected error occurred while refreshing the shared object manager cache.   Reason: This operation returned because the [...]