Blocking in Distribution Database

I noticed that the distribution agents are blocking themselves in the
distribution database.
It looks like this when i do a sp_who2 spid/blocked By:
80/Not blocked
80/80
80/80
80/80
80/80
Is this normal?
Probably not. Check to see what the process is doing which is doing the
blocking and being blocked. You may need to use DBCC inputbuffer(spid) to do
this. You will get locking when some of the replication agents are running,
and even EM will cause locking. It is also possible that if your server is
really under substaintial load the log reader and distribution agents will
lock themselves.
Hilary Cotter
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"Jeff B" <JeffB@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I noticed that the distribution agents are blocking themselves in the
> distribution database.
> It looks like this when i do a sp_who2 spid/blocked By:
> 80/Not blocked
> 80/80
> 80/80
> 80/80
> 80/80
> Is this normal?