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title: Tune the underlying datastores
description: AM is not file-descriptor intensive, but you may need to tune each DS instance in your environment to handle multiple client connections.
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# Tune the underlying datastores

AM is not file-descriptor intensive, but you may need to tune each DS instance in your environment to handle multiple client connections.

Learn more about tuning DS in the [DS performance tuning](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingds/8.1/maintenance-guide/tuning.html) documentation.