24.3. 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.
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:
On restarting the server the tuning enhancements specified in the neo4j.properties file will be loaded and configured into the underlying database engine.
Specifying JVM tuning properties
Tuning the standalone server is achieved by editing the neo4j-wrapper.conf file in the
conf directory of
Edit the following properties:
neo4j-wrapper.conf JVM tuning properties
initial heap size (in MB)
maximum heap size (in MB)
additional literal JVM parameter
For more information on the tuning properties, see Section 24.4, “Performance Guide”.