What is the Queue Mechanism on Metadefender Core?

MetaDefender Core V4 and V5 come equipped with a queue mechanism designed to streamline and manage high-volume data processing (i.e. file scans).

The article below outlines the basic functioning of the MetaDefender Core queue mechanism.

The main topics include:

• Queue mechanism
• Queue size

Queue mechanism

MetaDefender Core manages its processing tasks in a queue.

MetaDefender Core uses a maximum of a quarter (25%) of its maximum queue size for archive processing (this applies to all archives processed at a time, not to each one).

This means that, if you send only one archive file into the queue, the archive extraction will fill the queue up to only 25% of the queue size. It does this not only to leave room for further file submissions, but also to provide parallel processing capacity.

Queue size

The default queue size is set to 500.

The number of items in the queue can be extracted from the results of the REST API call GET /stat/nodes.