QMS 2025, Administrator'S Manual

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Evaluation of
Your Printing
Environment
QMS 3825/3225/2025 System Administrator’s Guide 7-6
Printer Features and Memory Clients
To get started with your memory configuration, check the following
table to see which features you use and which memory clients control
them. Detailed descriptions of the clients begin on page 7-8.
Feature Memory
Client Notes
Hard disk Disk Cache An internal hard disk and optional
external hard disks provide storage
space for downloaded fonts and
emulations. They also improve collation
performance, hold spooled data and
provide virtual memory capabilities. You
can access all this more quickly if you
dedicate sufficient memory to the Disk
Cache client. See the formula for setting
Disk Cache on page 7-14.
Resident
emulations Emulation The emulation client may need extra
memory if you print complex non-
PostScript jobs in different non-
PostScript emulations.
Non-
resident
emulations Temporary
Emulation If you use a downloaded optional
emulation, such as QUIC II, you may
improve performance by increasing the
memory in Temporary Emulation.
Number of
users Spool Buffers Additional memory in this client
increases the number of jobs that can
be accepted for spooling
simultaneously, freeing host systems
more quickly. However, if too much
memory is allocated here, throughput
can be slowed because of the time
involved in processing a large spool.