Strange Business rule behaviour in EAS

Hi,
We are testing some changes to the caches for a planning app. As part of this a number of business rules are be run concurrently to simulate what happens in production. The business rules, with a large data set, are started from EAS, as they are in production as they are run by admins. The first two start fine but when the third is run one of two things happen.
1. The first two started show completed after a few seconds while the third one is running
2. An error saying 'Detail: Cannot Calculate. Analytic Server Error(1013131): Failed to start Asynchronous thread' appears on the 3rd business rule
It doesn't seem to matter the order the business rules are run in. The same rule is run more than once but with different variables.
I have restarted planning. I also read about the system properties HBR_MAX_WAIT_FOR_RULE and HBR_MONITOR_DELAY. They were added before my time to resolve the business rules appearing to error but continuing to run in the background. The settings are
HBR_MAX_WAIT_FOR_RULE: 180000
HBR_MONITOR_DELAY: 90000
I would appreciate any suggestions as I haven't seen this before.
For info, prod is a better spec environment but with lower data and index caches but is slow hence the tuning exercise in UAT.
Thanks,
Nathan

Hi Nathan,
Are you using SET CALCPARALLEL in your business rule.
Your log mentions about creating a thread, so I thought if you can serialize in stead of parallelling the calculation, it might work.
Best regards
Ali

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