We recently upgraded a few versions of IS to Version: 14.2.5.851
No change to rules, tasks, etc... but now we're having run times on regularly scheduled tasks 4-5 times longer than before the upgrade. We looked at the IS server task manager immediately after a reboot and see dozens of pretty large al_engine.exe processes running, despite NO rule or profiling tasks scheduled or running. Is this normal? Why would so many processes start immediately after a re-boot?
This is on an Information Steward only box, but the IPS is clustered and shared with Data Services, if that matters. I believe the tasks on the IS box itself should reflect only InfoSteward content since the box is NOT used as a DS jobserver.