Configure the sifter for mentor selection

The sifter finds mentors for users, using the information from the rating or transaction data for the LikeMinds server engines. The sifter is used by all of the LikeMinds server engines except for the Item Affinity Engine, which uses the accumulator utility Figure 1 illustrates how the sifter works:

Figure 1. How the Sifter Works

• Sifter-specific mentor set configuration
  

• How the mentor selection process works
  

• Sifter performance considerations
  

• Recomputing (rebuilding) the mentor pool
  

• Running multiple sifters
  

• Preventing multiple sifters from sifting the same user
  

• Number of threads to sift users
  

• Sifter sleep time when the Lps_User_Data sift_pri field Is 0
  

• Time interval for checking sift priority
  

Parent: Configure LikeMinds utilities