Controlling the Size of Work Units

The number of records in each work unit is controlled by the business service property named Work Unit Size which is under the LOY Member Admin Service. Using Oracle’s Siebel Tools, you can set the value of this user property to any quantity up to 100.

Use a larger work unit size if you typically process large numbers of records. For example, if you typically process 10,000 records, then a work unit size of 10 is too low, because you need 1,000 child workflow instances to process all the records, which would slow performance. As a general rule, use a work unit size of 100 if the number of records processed is high, more than about 10,000, but lower the work unit size to 50 if the number of records processed is about 1,000.