These settings affect the size of the priority queue and the total number of tasks that AutoMate will run at any given time.
Maximum
total tasks in the holding queue
The total number of tasks that AutoMate will place in the holding queue
when a prioritized task prevents a task or tasks from running immediately.
Once this
limit is reached, tasks are discarded instead of being placed in the queue.
A larger
queue uses more memory and resources, and may cause a massive CPU utilization
spike if the entire queue empties at once (for example, if fifty tasks
are queued because of one "run alone" task, when the task ends,
all fifty tasks with start at once)
Maximum
total of simultaneously running tasks
Specify the total number of tasks that AutoMate will run at one time. When
this limit is reached, tasks are not started until the running task count
goes below this value. Each
running task consumes approximately 7MB of memory. The
more tasks that run at once, the more memory is consumed and the more
CPU power is required to track and maintain the tasks. Setting
this value too high may seriously hamper overall system performance. Setting
it too low may cause tasks to not trigger.
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