Error: “Packaging succeeded, but publishing failed”,

[JamalNUMAN]

Error: “Packaging succeeded, but publishing failed”,

I couldn’t figure out why I’m getting the error below

“Packaging succeeded, but publishing failed”

What might be the issue here?

Thank you

Best

Jamal

[GeoffreyWest]

Have you attempted to overwrite previously published map services or just create a service definition and publish from server manager?    

[JamalNUMAN]

Many thanks Geoffrey for the prompt help,

Good hint. I have overwrite a previously map service and it works fine.

What might this indicate for?

[GeoffreyWest]

Not sure what this indicates unfortunately, with overwriting you maintain previous service definitions. Id stop all services temporarily and see if you can publish a new map service. If so id say you have too many processes consuming resources.

[JamalNUMAN]

Thank you very much Geoffrey and Sapna for the massive help,

I have reduced the number of published services (they are less than 30 services at the moment) with 1 and 2 as min\max number of instances per machine (pooling). The problem disappears.

By the way, is there a way to count the number of ArcSoc.exe? I assume that there counts shouldn’t exceed 80 as the number of cores of our server is 16 (16*5 = 80).

I’ll be reporting if the error appears in the future

[StevenGraf1]

If you need all those services running, I would add another machine to your server and create a cluster out of it and publish to that new cluster.

[JamalNUMAN]

Thanks Steven,

I can live at the moment with having many layers in one service to avoid exceeding the hardware limit of the 16 cores (16*4 =64 ArcSoc.exe)

[847396730]

I have a similar problem.  I try to publish a service, I get the same error shown above.  Then I stop a service already running on that server, and I can successfully publish the service, then restart the one I sacrificed. 

My question is: how much memory do the publishing tools require?  Is there a mechanism which AGServer uses to detect available memory and then "decide" whether or not to publish, and if so, what is the threshold?

[JamalNUMAN]

Very interesting question Marianne. Hope experts can provide an answer.

[sapnas]

you can check the hardware resources usage from windows task manager of the server. You can also install splunk on the server which monitors and keeps the history of memory/CPU usage

[JamalNUMAN]

Many thanks Sapna,

Our query here is related to the quota of the ArcSoc.exe on the server as this is controlled by the number of cores available on it.

Notes:

1 core on the server can take up to 5 ArcSoc.exe.

1 core needs 3 GB

Now:

Each map service will consume a number of ArcSoc.exe. The total consumed ArcSoc.exe shouldn’t exceed #of cores*5

There should be an indicator to show the remaining number of ArcSoc.exe before proceeding in publishing.

What do you think?