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## 17.5. Server Performance Tuning

At the heart of the Neo4j server is a regular Neo4j storage engine instance. That engine can be tuned in the same way as the other embedded configurations, using the same file format. The only difference is that the server must be told where to find the fine-tuning configuration.

### 17.5.1. Specifying Neo4j tuning properties

The `conf/neo4j-server.properties` file in the server distribution, is the main configuration file for the server. In this file we can specify a second properties file that contains the database tuning settings (that is, the `neo4j.properties` file). This is done by setting a single property to point to a valid `neo4j.properties` file:

    org.neo4j.server.db.tuning.properties={neo4j.properties file}

On restarting the server the tuning enhancements specified in the `neo4j.properties` file will be loaded and configured into the underlying database engine.

### 17.5.2. Specifying JVM tuning properties

Tuning the standalone server is achieved by editing the `neo4j-wrapper.conf` file in the `conf` directory of `NEO4J_HOME`.

Edit the following properties:

neo4j-wrapper.conf JVM tuning properties

Property Name | Meaning
--- | ---
`wrapper.java.initmemory` | initial heap size (in MB)
`wrapper.java.maxmemory` | maximum heap size (in MB)
`wrapper.java.additional.N` | additional literal JVM parameter, where N is a number for each

For more information on the tuning properties, see Section 11.4, “JVM Settings”.

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