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Helper IMashup container freezes server
Super UserThe mashup containers are the processes the run the Power Query logic when loading your data models. You cannot turn these off, they are an integral part of the data refresh engine. It sounds like someone has setup a scheduled refresh for a report (or multiple reports) to run every half hour.
The most likely scenario is that you have too many reports refreshing at the same time. If this is the case moving the refresh schedules of some of the reports to different times or reduce their frequency.
Helper IWhy is this flagged as solved? This is not the cause, there are no scheduled reports at this particular time. First thing I checked was the report schedules of course as that is the most obvious. Second thing was to disable all background refreshes. Both had no effect at all, there is some other process that is running in PowerBI. For lack of a scheduler or a management tool for this thing it is all guesswork. Maybe someone at MS who built this engine can pitch in?