By default, the OnePacs Study Retriever will download DICOM instances into memory until it reaches a limit of up to a configurable limit before the instances are stored to a DICOM destination. By default, that limit is 8 individual instances or any single instance greater than 1 MB of size. Thus, the maximum number of instances that the study retriever will store in a single DICOM association is 8, by default, and may be less depending on the size of the instances. On systems with a high-overhead for DICOM network communication, it may be desirable to increase the batch size to a larger value (e.g. 20 instances instead of 8).
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