Keep RS awake.

Any ideas as to how to keep Reporting Services awake? I have tried setting
up a simple report that gets the current time and then created a
subscription that runs ever 5 minutes, but it often still takes time to open
the home page.Here is a response from another poster:
"If you are running Windows 2003 server for your IIS reportserver, then this
is a simple issue - I'll explain what happens:The report service engine,
once it is idle for more than the default 20 minutes, the worker process is
shutdown.This is controlled by IIS.Open up the Internet Information Services
(IIS) Manager
Expand the server node then the application pools.On my IIS machine, I
created an application pool dedicated to the reportserver & reportmanager
virtual webs.
But anyways, for the application pool that the reportserver is pointing to
if you left everything to their defaults will be the DefaultAppPool.
Right click the default app pool and select properties.
There are two things that are checked by default - On the recycling tab
there is a checkbox for recycling worker processes - it is currently set to
1740 minutes (29 hours). Leave it.
The other one is on the performance tab - which is the one you are
interested in changing...
See the "Idle Timeout" section and increase the number of minutes to be 8
hours a typical working day - 8*60 = 480 minutes.
Next, to be sure the "morning person" that runs the first report doesn't get
the delay, set up a schedule for either a dummy or adhoc report to fire off
like at 6am so that the report component worker processes get loaded.
I hope this helps you.
There is no need to have a report fire off every minute to keep things
alive - it is just that the report service was "unloaded" and needed to load
back up.
=-Chris"
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Shawn" <shawn.camner@.ccci.org> wrote in message
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> Any ideas as to how to keep Reporting Services awake? I have tried setting
> up a simple report that gets the current time and then created a
> subscription that runs ever 5 minutes, but it often still takes time to
> open the home page.
>|||Thanks, I will give it a whirl...
"Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here is a response from another poster:
> "If you are running Windows 2003 server for your IIS reportserver, then
> this is a simple issue - I'll explain what happens:The report service
> engine, once it is idle for more than the default 20 minutes, the worker
> process is shutdown.This is controlled by IIS.Open up the Internet
> Information Services (IIS) Manager
> Expand the server node then the application pools.On my IIS machine, I
> created an application pool dedicated to the reportserver & reportmanager
> virtual webs.
> But anyways, for the application pool that the reportserver is pointing to
> if you left everything to their defaults will be the DefaultAppPool.
> Right click the default app pool and select properties.
> There are two things that are checked by default - On the recycling tab
> there is a checkbox for recycling worker processes - it is currently set
> to 1740 minutes (29 hours). Leave it.
> The other one is on the performance tab - which is the one you are
> interested in changing...
> See the "Idle Timeout" section and increase the number of minutes to be 8
> hours a typical working day - 8*60 = 480 minutes.
> Next, to be sure the "morning person" that runs the first report doesn't
> get the delay, set up a schedule for either a dummy or adhoc report to
> fire off like at 6am so that the report component worker processes get
> loaded.
> I hope this helps you.
> There is no need to have a report fire off every minute to keep things
> alive - it is just that the report service was "unloaded" and needed to
> load back up.
> =-Chris"
>
> --
> Bruce Loehle-Conger
> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
> "Shawn" <shawn.camner@.ccci.org> wrote in message
> news:e2WCz9ahHHA.392@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Any ideas as to how to keep Reporting Services awake? I have tried
>> setting up a simple report that gets the current time and then created a
>> subscription that runs ever 5 minutes, but it often still takes time to
>> open the home page.
>