1.8

High-performance hardware
The following is suggested when processing speed is important. Before looking into
Performance Packs to enhance performance, ensure that the below requirements are met.
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MySQL Database on a separate machine. MySQL's main possible bottleneck is file I/O,
and as such a high-performance setup will require this server to be on a separate
machine, ideally with a high-performance, low-latency hard drive. A Solid State Drive
(SSD) would be recommended.
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High-Quality 16+ GB Ram. This is especially true when working with many server
instances ("speed units") running in parallel. The more parallel processing, the more
RAM is recommended.
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4 or 8 physical cores. We're not talking Hyper-Threading here, but physical cores.
Hyper-Threading is great with small applications, but the overhead of "switching"
between the virtual cores, and the fact that, well, they're virtual, means the performance is
much lesser on high-power applications such as OL Connect. In short, a dual-core
processor with Hyper-Threading enabled is not equivalent to a quad-core processor.
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Preferably use a physical, non-virtualized server. VMWare servers are great for
reducing the numbers of physical machines in your IT space, but they must share the
hardware between each other. While you can create a virtual machine that seems as
powerful as a physical, it will still be sharing hardware with any other virtual machines,
and this will adversely affect performance.
System Requirements
These are the system requirements for PlanetPress Connect 1.8
Operating System (64-bit only)
l Microsoft Windows 2008/2008 R2 Server
l Microsoft Windows 2012/2012 R2 Server
l Microsoft Windows Vista
l Microsoft Windows 7
l Microsoft Windows 8.1
l Microsoft Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise versions only)
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