Controlling the number of simultaneous processes on a multi-core system
Color Factory environment settings
Note: This functionality is only available in Color Factory Enterprise.
In Color Factory Settings, select Global Options in the console tree and open the Process Environment tab to set certain advanced options governing how Color Factory operates.
Allowing multi-processing
If running Color Factory on a multi-CPU platform, you may want to increase the maximum number of processes allowed simultaneously. The maximum number of simultaneous processes allowed amounts to twice the number of processor cores installed on the server system plus one; this guarantees that there will always be sufficient power available to process files at a reasonable rate. The absolute maximum number of simultaneous processes is 16.
Channel priority
When configuring a channel, you may set a priority for that channel. This way, channels requiring faster processing than others may be given priority over lower-priority channels. On the Process Environment tab, you may set the priority level as a percentage of files processed during a given time period for all channels of each priority if all priorities have files to process all the time. The default values are 80, 15, and 5, for high, medium, and low plow-prioritynels, respectively, which means that traffic in low-priority channels will never stop fully, but high-priority channels will be given much more CPU time.
Color Management engine
Color Factory can use both the ICM color engine and the Adobe Color Engine for color processing. Windows ICM is the default choice, but if you prefer the Adobe engine, just make the switch here and save the configuration to update the changes.