topic Re: many AlteryxEngineCmd on the task manager in Alteryx Server Discussions

many AlteryxEngineCmd on the task manager

srajapandian — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:33:24 GMT

We have setup to run only 8 workflows at a time, not sure why about 20 or so AlteryxEngineCmd is on the task.

Is it the workflows are not getting completed or is it like a leak on the process

patrick_mcauliffe — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:12:02 GMT

@srajapandian How many workflows are being run and how many are in queue when you have 20 procs running?

srajapandian — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:09:12 GMT

we have setup to run 8 workflows, could be more in the queue - about 40, when the task manager had around 20 atleast.

patrick_mcauliffe — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:21:41 GMT

If any of the workflows are chained, it's possible that some are expected but it does sound like a hung process.

How often are you rebooting the machine?
In my experience it's good to have a scheduled weekly reboot on Windows servers.

srajapandian — Fri, 01 May 2020 14:33:55 GMT

Thanks for the response.

We have it scheduled to restart once a week.

We still needed to restart in between sometimes because of these hung processes.

I restarted yesterday and already there about 15 at least process

patrick_mcauliffe — Mon, 04 May 2020 11:09:48 GMT

Sounds like it's time to send in a ticket to support so they can dig in deeper.