Impact of stopping Workflow Timer Service on SharePoint 2010 server

Question

I have a farm of 4 servers ( 2 WFE and 2 App ) and on both the App servers i would like to stop the workflow timer service.

What would be the impact of that?

Answer 1

Rule for SharePoint Workflow Timer service is:

• Start the Web Application Service on all servers that have the Workflow Timer Service running.

Or

• Disable the Workflow Timer Service on servers that are not running the Web Application service.

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If you stop the Workflow timer but Web applcation service is running then you will not run properly.

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