Diagnosing Problems with Jobs
By looking at jobs and queues, you can often quickly spot a problem in the system.
Most jobs spend most of their time in a dequeuing state while they wait for messages. During shutdown they should become quiescent. If the job does not become quiescent during shutdown, that likely indicates a problem. If the job is constantly in a running state, that also indicates a problem, unless you expect the component to be doing a lot of processing (and it is actually completing this processing).
Jobs that are marked as dead are jobs that have been terminated for some reason and InterSystems IRIS has detected that the job is no longer present on the system. This is normally an indication of a serious problem and should not occur. Also, if InterSystems IRIS detects a dead job, it writes an error to the Event Log.
