SSRS - Process dies/goes to sleep after not being used

Question

Another SSRS question here:
We have a development, a QA, a Prod-Backup and a Production SSRS set of servers.
On our production and prod-backup, SSRS will g

Answer 1

For anybody using the integrated webserver that is built into SQL Reporting Services (and hence IIS may not even be installed on the box), the setting to control this actually lives in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\
         MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config

Your directory may be different; version 10_50 maps to SQL 2008 R2.

You'll be looking for the setting called RecycleTime.
Default is 720 (12 hours). Setting it to 0 will disable.