I came across this excellent article from Chris Skorlinski which talks about logreader timeout errors. All DBA’s who have managed a replicated environment must have encountered this error. This article talks about the Root-Cause of this issue and advises a resolution. Worth a read.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/repltalk/archive/2010/10/25/troubleshooting-logreader-timeout-executing-sp-replcmds.aspx

Tagged: High availability, Log Reader Agent, Microsoft SQL Server, Replication, Replication Agents, sp_replcmds