Performance Drop After Unrelated Error

  • I have a very odd behaviour in our environments (dev, test and prod).

    One package, quite predictably, fails when trying to convert a string ('KM') to an int.

    But then the next package to run slows down from a normal 1-5 min to 2-10 hours.

    The packages shares the same databases, but have no tables in common and there are no relationsships between their tables.

    When I've tried to reproduce the problem during daytime the second package runs in a normal time. I've used the same data, caused the same error, run them by the same user.

    Generally I would think that this is coincidence, but it has happened 3 times in the last two weeks.

    Anyone else seen behaviour like this?

  • I noticed that the packages have the same ID. I don't know if this is relevant though.

    Also, when checking the performance log one can see that the virtual servers are neither using the hard drive nor the processor during the long (slow) execution.

  • I think it is best if packages do not have the same ID.

    It could be related (or maybe not). Change the ID in one of the packages and see what happens...

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