SSIS and Max Packet Size

Working to improve my ETL performance, I changed my Max Packet Size on my database server and my ETL server to 32767. However, when I tried to run an SSIS package, I received the following error:

Communication Link Error.
Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe.

I also received this error when in SQL Server Management Studio, connected to the Integration Services on that server, and tried to browse thru the package store to a package.
After a little research, I determined that SSIS cannot read the packages from the MSDB database if the the Max Packet Size is set larger than 16384.

So at this point, my options are to lower the Max Packet Size on the ETL server, Save my SSIS packages on the hard drive, or move the packages to a package store on a different server, with the Max Packet Size at 16384 or lower.

I am going to test this out and see if it warrants moving the packages to either the file system or another server, or if the 16384 packet size will be sufficient for our ETL processing.


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