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running Designer.
The Merge engine is responsible for the plugins Create Print Content, Create Email
Content and Create Web Content.
License restrictions only apply to the Merge engine when creating Email or Web content.
They do not apply for Create Print Content. This means you are allowed to start an infinite
amount of Merge engines on any given Connect Sever to run print jobs, but you will be
restricted to a set number of Merge engines for your Email and HTML jobs.
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Weaver Engines selection: This option is read-only in PrintShop Mail Connect Designer
Preferences.
Select the desired amount of Weaver (Output)Engines.
A Merge engine merges the template and the data to create Email output, or to create an
intermediary file for Printed output. The intermediary file is in turn used by a Weaver
engine to prepare the Print output.
Adding extra Weaver (Output) engine(s) might be useful when large Print jobs are to be
run simultaneously with smaller Print jobs. However, too many running engines will waste
precious RAM and CPU cycles to idle processes, whilst too few could create a
bottleneck.
Memory
This group is only available if Engines were selected as the processing architecture.
Specify the maximum amount of random access memory (RAM) in megabytes that will be used
per engine in order to make optimal use of the machine's memory.
The selections made here will apply to all Engines of that type.
Note
These settings only control the maximum size of the Java heap memory that an engine
can use; the total amount of memory that will used by an engine is actually a bit higher.
Also keep in mind that the Connect Server and the operating system itself will need
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