ppdsweb.exe not clearing

[spicysudhi]

hi,

I never understood the concepts of maximum processes and timeouts!

Isnt it max processes is the no of processes that are allowed (ie., no of ppdsweb.exes allowed). Idle process Timeout is if no request processed by a ppdsweb.exe for x minutes then destroy it.

In Cube Settings (at Server Level) I have:
Connection Timeout: 15 minutes
Min processes : 0
Max processes: 5
Request Timeout: 300 seconds
Idle process timeout: 15 minutes

And in Report Settings (at Server Level) :
Connection Timeout: 15 minutes
Min processes : 0
Max processes: 5
Report Timeout: 15 minutes
Idle process timeout: 15 minutes


With this,
a) why I am seeing more than 10 ppdsweb.exes ?

b) Why they never destroy even though the PPES shows no active requests in process monitoring tab for quite long time (also no audit logs)?

c) is there anyway I can limit the number of requests handled by individual process? The reason is some of these processes are consuming large amount of memory/cpu and almost 2 or 3 of them killing the server.

please guide.

thanks in advance.

regards,
Sudhi