Weaver Engine Scheduling

The Merge Engine merges the template and the data to create Email and Web output, or to create an intermediary file for Printed output. The intermediary file is in turn used by the Weaver Engine to prepare the Print output.

This preference page determines the number of Weaver engines launched, as well as their speed, when generating the output. One single engine can only process a single job at a time, at the speed available depending on licence and configuration. Note that in this dialog, the use of the term "Speed Unit" is in relation of the available speed for each engine. One speed unit = one unit of speed at the maximum speed your licence and number of Performance Packs allows. With no Performance Pack, PReS Connect's Weaver engine can generate output at 1250 ppm (pages per minute). Additional Performance Packs increase this base speed per engine.

Changes made to the following settings will be applied on the run (when the Apply button is pressed), and do not require the OLConnect_Server service to be restarted.

  • Use one internal engine: Check to limit to a single instance of the server. Useful for computers that run below the recommended system requirements (see System Requirements) or demo machines.
  • Total Engines Available: Read-only box indicating the current number of engines that are active or available. On the main Server of a cluster, this includes all engines in the cluster (Server Extensions).
  • Local Engines Launched: Enter the total number of Weaver Engines desired on this server. When changing the number of engines, it is necessary to save this dialog (Apply) to actually apply the changes.
  • Expected Remote Engines: Only available when Clustering is active, and on the main Server. Enter the total number of engines available in the other machines of the cluster (the total number of engines in all of the Server Extensions connected to this server).
  • Speed Units Launched: Read-only box indicating the number of speed units launched.
  • Limit in license: Read-only box indicating the maximum number of speed units useable to produce output.
  • Reserved Count: Read-only box indicating the total number of "Reserved" engines, as set in the Speed unit reservations topic below.
  • Restart after (mins): Restarts the Weaver Engines at the selected time interval. If a job is in progress at that point, the Weaver Engines will await job completion before restarting.
  • Parallel engines/speed units per job:
    • Parallel engines/speed units per medium job: Enter the number of engines/speed units that prioritize medium print jobs.
    • Parallel engines/speed units per large job: Enter the number of engines/speed units that prioritize large print jobs.
  • Speed unit reservations:
    • Floating: Read-only box indicating the number of floating speed units that can be used for any type of job.
    • Small job speed unit reservations: Enter a number of speed units reserved for small print jobs.
    • Medium job speed unit reservations: Enter a number of speed units reserved for medium print jobs.
    • Large job speed unit reservations: Enter a number of speed units reserved for large print jobs.
  • Maximum speed units:
    • Small job limit: Enter the maximum number of speed units that can run small print jobs.
    • Medium job limit: Enter the maximum number of speed units that can run medium print jobs.
    • Large job limit: Enter the maximum number of speed units that can run large print jobs.
 
  • Last Topic Update: 07, January, 2018 06:45 PM
  • Last Published: 23, May, 2019 01:55 PM