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daxman
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5 years ago
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Severe Report Rendering Performance Degradation on May 2021 release

Anyone else experiencing report rendering performance issues in this release of Power BI Report Server? One of our customers PBI Report Servers was upgraded to May 2021, and after about a week man...
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    daxman
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    We aren't using the portal preview... but we did find the solution, so wanted to post here.

    The timing was purely coincidental, but there scheduled refresh was set up only days after the upgrade to the May 2021 release. That scheduled refresh was set up to run every minute of every day. This heavily affected performance on the rest of the report server (without impacting the overall CPU/Memory stats). Once we updated that refresh to run every few hours, report server performance improved significantly.