ILOG CPLEX 11.0 User's Manual > Continuous Optimization > Solving LPs: Simplex Optimizers > Choosing an Optimizer for Your LP Problem > Parameter Settings and Optimizer Choice

When you are using parameter settings other than the default, consider the algorithms that these settings will affect. Some parameters, such as the time limit, will affect all the algorithms invoked by the concurrent optimizer. Others, such as the refactoring frequency, will affect both the primal and dual simplex algorithms. And some parameters, such as the primal gradient, dual gradient, or barrier convergence tolerance, affect only a single algorithm.