IU_FEEDERTHREADS

Number of feeder threads

WTSupported in traditional Synergy on Windows
WNSupported in Synergy .NET on Windows
USupported on UNIX

 

The IU_FEEDERTHREADS environment variable specifies the number of feeder threads.

The number of feeder threads, in the range 0 – 8. The default is the number of CPUs divided by 2.

When isutl is run, the “main thread” passes memory-mapped records to a “feeder thread” via a lock-free queue. The feeder thread then uncompresses the records, if necessary, and extracts the keys, passing them to individual “key threads” via a set of key queues. The key threads use the data as input to the first phase of the sort, which eventually gets written out as partially sorted runs. This keeps the data in transit longer before being written out, and multiple keys can be processed simultaneously. The IU_FEEDERTHREADS environment variable enables you to change the number of feeder threads.

The environment.

isutl utility, fconvert utility

On UNIX,

IU_FEEDERTHREADS=2 ;export IU_FEEDERTHREADS