8.5
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Getting started with QuarkXPress Server
- The QuarkXPress Server user interface
- Server Configuration dialog box
- Server preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — EPS
- Preferences — Application — Error Reporting
- Preferences — Application — Full Res Preview
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Modifier
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — PSD Import
- Preferences — Application — Placeholders
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Preferences — Application — Picture Effects
- Preferences — Project — General
- Preferences — Project — XML Import
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Trapping
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Style sheets
- Colors
- H&Js
- Output styles
- Font mapping
- Source setups
- Output setups
- PPML consumers
- Server XTensions Manager
- Status Monitor
- Other QuarkXPress Server menu items
- Creating URL requests
- Modifying layouts with XML
- QuarkXPress Server XTensions software
- Telegraph XTensions software
- QuarkXPress Server Monitor
- QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Understanding QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Working with QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Starting QuarkXPress Server Manager
- Request handler binding
- Configuring QuarkXPress Server instances
- Managing the cache
- Managing logs
- Controlling load balancing
- Using a proxy server
- Generating automatic e-mail messages
- Using other global settings
- Saving a server configuration
- Exporting a server configuration
- Using custom error messages
- Sending requests from a browser
- QuarkXPress Server Manager Scripting Environment
- Glossary
- Legal notices
- Index
• Round robin: Requests are sent to servers in a set order. For example, if you have three
QuarkXPress Server instances and QuarkXPress Server Manager receives ten rendering
requests, the requests are distributed as follows:
QuarkXPress Server instance usedRequest
11
22
33
14
25
36
17
• Dynamic: The QuarkXPress Server Manager server considers file size and throughput
requirements for each request. For example, assume the following series of requests is sent
to QuarkXPress Server Manager in an environment that uses two QuarkXPress Server
instances:
SizeRequest
8MB1
1MB2
2MB3
The first request is assigned to server #1, and the second request is assigned to server #2.
When the third request arrives, QuarkXPress Server Manager checks the loads that the two
servers are already handling and assigns the task to the server with the smallest load — in
this case, server #2.
If a request fails because a server stops responding or because of a "File Not Found" error,
QuarkXPress Server Manager does not resubmit that request to that server.
The Dynamic setting is typically the most efficient setting for environments with more
than one QuarkXPress Server instance.
For information about choosing a load-balancing setting, see "Controlling load balancing"
Developers can implement their own load-balancing systems; for more information, see
the QuarkXPress Server Web Integration Guide.
Request timeout interval
QuarkXPress Server Manager attempts to send each request to a QuarkXPress Server instance
that can promptly handle that request. However, in some situations a QuarkXPress Server
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