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3274298 - High memory consumption of BiPrecalculation.exe

Symptom

The BiPrecalculation.exe process is consuming high memory according to the Task Manager.

Is it possible to limit the memory consumption of Analysis Office workbooks scheduled in BI platform?

Environment

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office

Resolution

It is not possible to directly limit the memory consumption of process BiPrecalculation.exe. The memory usage depends on the size and the amount of Analysis Workbooks scheduled.

However, it is possible to adjust the amount of jobs given to BI Precalculation by using the options "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" and "Maximum Child Requests" in Central Management Console (CMC), in the Properties of the Adaptive Job Server as shown below:

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Keywords

BiPrecalculation.exe, memory, high, consuming, limitation, cpu, server, AdaptiveJobServer, task manager , KBA , BI-RA-AO-BIP , AO Precalculation, Scheduling and AO InfoOb... , How To

Product

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office all versions