`Distribution failed for all targets. In spool error.' When Distributing Large Package

When I distribute large (~200MB) software packages to Endpoints, sometimes (too often) the distribution is interrupted with the following error.

Error code is:
Source messages:
distribute: TasExCat:0017
04/02/03 04:11:40 (17): system problem: `Distribution failed for all targets. In spool error.'

Contributed By: Gary Hamilton and Marc Remes
This isn't a software package, it is a File Package. Big difference.

Take a look at solution 1014627. That solution suggests that your repeater settings are too small to accommodate the file package. Increase 'disk_hiwat' (note that the 'mem_max' parameter may also need to modified). This should be 20% less than 'disk_max', ensuring that the repeater sends a stop signal before the disk cache area for the file packages is full.

It also possible that you are running out of disk space, because in MDist1, which is what you are using, each distribution will use the 'wrpt -t' values assigned to the repeater. Therefore, although 'disk_max' is set to 500MB, for example, and you have 1 GB of disk available, 5 simultaneous 200+MB distributions will exhaust the amount of disk in the repeater.