Setup guide

Reserving Bandwidth for an Application
You may define a bandwidth reservation for each Creative Finishing application or tool that uses a certain
partition. By default, a group reservation for the major Creative Finishing applications (Inferno, Flame, Flint,
Smoke, and Backdraft Conform) running locally is already defined.
Remote applications are identified by application-specific tokens, workstation host name, as well as the user
name under which the application is executed. You can use any or all of these parameters to create detailed
bandwidth reservation rules.
You can also customize the way bandwidth is redistributed in low bandwidth situations. In low bandwidth
situations, instead of reducing all reservations proportionally towards zero, the bandwidth manager first
reduces the bandwidth of each process towards the low-bandwidth value specified for that process, and
attempts to maintain that minimum for as long as possible. If the device bandwidth keeps degrading, then
the bandwidth manager starts reducing bandwidth proportionally from the low-bandwidth values towards
zero.
In the following example, low-bandwidth values are not specified in the Bandwidth Manager configuration
file. The diagram illustrates the way the Bandwidth Manger redistributes device bandwidth in such a case,
as the total available bandwidth decreases from 800 MB/s to 420 MB/s and then to 320 MB/s. Note how
bandwidth is proportionally reduced for all processes.
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