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.
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