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title: Performance tuning
description: While PingAccess has been engineered as a high performance engine, its default configuration might not match your deployment goals nor the hardware you have available. Use the recommendations here to optimize various aspects of a PingAccess deployment for maximum performance.
component: pingaccess
version: 9.0
page_id: pingaccess:reference_guides:pa_performance_tuning
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingaccess/9.0/reference_guides/pa_performance_tuning.html
revdate: January 12, 2024
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# Performance tuning

While PingAccess has been engineered as a high performance engine, its default configuration might not match your deployment goals nor the hardware you have available. Use the recommendations here to optimize various aspects of a PingAccess deployment for maximum performance.

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|   | The PingAccess capacity planning guide is also available to customers as a performance data reference. This document is available from the [Customer Portal](https://support.pingidentity.com/s/). |

The features documented here are affected by the settings in the configuration file. For more information, see the [Configuration file reference](pa_config_file_ref.html).