Which is true about how many jobs a single FME Server engine can handle simultaneously?

• A. No, it runs only one job per engine at a time
• B. Yes, it can run multiple jobs per engine simultaneously
• C. It depends on the number of CPUs
• D. It depends on the size of the input dataset

Answer: (A)

A single FME Server engine runs one translation (one job) at a time. Each engine is a separate process, so to handle more than one job concurrently you use multiple engines from the Engine Pool, distributing jobs across them. The number of CPUs doesn’t change the fact that one engine handles one job at a time; it only affects how many engines you can run in parallel and how fast each job can execute. The input dataset size changes how long a single job takes, not how many jobs a single engine can run simultaneously.