BOMM - Metadata manager busobj.exe process limit number of report processed

Hello,
We're facing the following problem, we have a BOMM setup which is running flawless for universes and webi reports. But we have a huge amount (+8000) Deski reports all stored in the same folder.
While the integrator is processing the Deski reports at a certain point in time it goes wrong, we found out that to process the Deski reports BOMM launches a busobj.exe process which uses 2 GB of RAM at the moment the integrator stalls. The integrator does not give an out of memory error, it just stops processing and seems to timeout.
What I am now looking for is a parameter that can limit the number of Deski reports processed by the busobj.exe process, before it is terminated to free up the memory. We thought that the pplimit parameter would do just that, but it is not.
In the log we see all kinds of parameters, but there's very little information about what they do. These are arguments for which we would like to get some more information:
- maxSelect (defaults to 1000000)
- mtc
- ppc (number of concurrent jobs, but this seems not to influence the number of busobj sessions)
- pplimit
- ptc
our setup:
BOE = 3.1 SP2.5
BOMM Version: 12.1.0.6
Kind regards
Guy

Thank you Manoj,
This was already helpful, it confirmed our thoughts about the parameters.
I can not confirm your first comment about the fact that the busobj process closes after eacht report, I've monitored the processing on the server and during the run of the integrator the same busobj process was active (same PID).
Currently we try to process 100 reports at a time by manipulating the date modified on our dev enivronment by checking the reports in scope out and back in, and then starting the integrator.
The reports average around 200KB in size and none of them is set to refresh on open. Base on the logs it takes around 1 minute to process a single report. Depending on the fact if it is processing the associated universes or not. Disk space is not the issue.
I noticed similar behaviour when we used a VBA-script to feed our own mm, and I had to write code to limit the number of reports processed by the busobj process to around 100. I did this by closing the busobj process after 100 reports and then start a new batch of 100 reports in a new busobj process. I think busobj does not cleanup after closing the report, and with every report opened within the same process the memory usage of the process grows, until it reaches 1.8 GB and then the process just hangs.
I can open cases, if you can tell me on how to make sure it reaches you I'll just create one. Do you already have a release date for the fixpack you are talking about?
Regards
Guy

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