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· Sep 18, 2019

receiving more than 20 SHDWCBLK process running background when i try to shadow 5 namespace

Why i am receiving more than 20 SHDWCBLK process running background when i try to shadow 5 namespace ?

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The real question is why is that a problem? There are quite a few things involved in shadowing:

1) Processes retrieving/writing journal files

2) Dejournal reader process which reads those files and queues up records for sets/kills into database

3) Dejournal worker process which actually does those sets/kills

4) Dejournal prefetchers which fetch blocks from disk so 3) doesn't need to do disk reads itself

Most likely, you have 16+ dejournal prefetchers, optimizing the performance of shadowing keeping up with your source system.