Large scheduled DeskI reports are corrupt, but reported as successful

Hi, everyone.
One of our customers have recently upgraded from R2 to XI 3.1 SP2 + FP 2.9.
It is a standalone system (not clustered) running on Windows Server 2008 64-bit.
All BO server settings are default settings.
The problem was found when testing reports after migration.
After migrating, they have problems with some of their large reports.
These reports contain several prompts, and will take more than 3 hours to complete if the selection criterions are not limited significantly by using the prompts.
This was not a problem in R2.
The problem is as follows:
If one schedules the report and limits the data to retrieve, say, one month of data only, the reports schedules just fine and the instance can be opened without problems.
But, if one increases the time period to a year, retrieving a lot of data, we run into problems.
The history of the report will tell us that the report has run successfully, but when we open the instance in InfoView the report will immediately fail with an error message which just says Error: INF.
Nothing more.
I then tested by finding where the physical files for the instances were located in the Output File Repository using Query Builder.
The small instances can be opened directly using DeskI full client.
When opening the reports which gave me Error: INF in InfoView, I get "Unknown Error. FRM0007." in DeskI. This indicates that the u201Cbigu201D reports are corrupt.
Also, if we schedule to PDF, the PDF generated only contains "placeholders" for the data.
See this link for screenshot from a part of such a PDF. [PDF with errors|http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n597/AffectoASM/datalabels.png]
So the problem is: The scheduled reports runs for more than 3 hours and are reported as being successful. However, the report instance generated is corrupt.
Do anyone here know what might be the cause of this?
Thanks!
Edited by: Jan Terje Hansen on Aug 12, 2011 12:41 PM Typos

Appreciate the response, although I do not understand the SMB reference as I thought iSCSI was a direct block transfer. Indeed the memory load does increase during the period of the network activity. So caching applies to iSCSI
direct block access as well as SMB? Apologies for my ignorance.
iSCSI is cached on client side just like any physical disk (marked removable or not). So files you copy go to Cache and Memory Manager cache before traveling down storage stack pushed by Lazy Writer. So you see what you see: smaller amount of writes (<RAM
size) go immediately to memory and then storage stack, TCP, iSCSI and network actually kick in.
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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