Project Scheduling Service

[Andrew Curtis]

Hey

I have just been talking with our Office Manager/IT Manager. To my concern
He has told me about how he noticed the Project Server Scheduled Process
Service (for Project Server 2003) was taking up a lot of the CPU time and ram
on the server so he manually stopped the service and restarted it using
services.msc. This is not the first time he has done this and I am very
concerned about what effects it may have.

What are the flow on effects of stopping the service while it is working?
Do I need to get the manager to stop this?

I am concerned that it will cause corrupt data to be floating around in
Project Server or cause other pain for me as the Project Server
Admin/Developer

Any comments or advice would be appreciated, if I am to confront him about
this I need some evidence/proof that what he is doing could damage our
Project Server.

Cheers

Andrew Curtis

 

[Joshua Tan]

Hi Andrew,

When you say Project Scheduling Service, you're refering to PJSCHSVC.exe
right?

This service is for OLAP Cube Creation and Notification. I guess when your
IT Manager sees it as high, it's probably generating the cube or sending out
notifications at that time.

Based on the description I've provided you should be able to tell whether
it's important to your day to day operations on Project Server. I.e. Are you
using OLAP Cubes and Notifications?

I guess the best practice would be to just leave it. If it's particularly
taking up a lot of CPU time and ram, you'll need to check if it's constantly
or at particular times only.

Hope that helps.