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JobServers

Set the number of job servers.

Synopsis

[Startup]    JobServers=n

n is an integer in the range 0—2000. The default value is 0.

Description

JobServers is the number of job servers you want InterSystems IRIS® data platform to start up.

Having a large number of job servers running will use more memory and processes, but allows for much faster jobbing of processes because InterSystems IRIS doesn't have to start the processes at the system level and then initialize them.

Job servers are best used when the application creates a significant number of short-lived processes via the Job command. For this type of process where operating system process creation overhead dominates the total cost of running the process, using job servers can be beneficial. If background processes tend to perform extended tasks then there is very little benefit from using job servers.

Changing This Parameter

On the Startup page of the Management Portal (System Administration > Configuration > Additional Settings > Startup), in the JobServers row, select Edit. Enter a number of job servers.

Instead of using the Management Portal, you can change JobServers in the Config.StartupOpens in a new tab class (as described in the class reference) or by editing the CPF in a text editor (as described in Editing the Active CPF).

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