I had a document library with unlimited versioning enabled and frequent updates to a couple documents. In the interest of better space management I set the Major Version Limit to 25. There were 250 versions of one 13 mb document. When the first update to that document occurred this morning, the system became unresponsive for all users for a number of minutes until all current users recieved the ever helpful "An error has occurred" page.
During the unresponsive period there was no significant resource usage on the front end server or database server. CPU below 10% and no paging on both servers.
I "successfully' recreated the condition on my test server which has a recent copy of the production data.
There are no relevaant Application or System Event Log entries on any production or test servers.
Environment:
64 Bit Server 2003 R2
MOSS 2007 SP3 [Microsoft.SharePoint.DLL version 12.0.6608.1000]
SQL 2008 19.0.5500
David McKenzie