Installation and Operation
Performance Tuning a Lightspeed Server
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Lightspeed K80 Server Guide
Performance Tuning a Lightspeed Server
The following adjustments can improve performance on your Lightspeed server. (For
details, consult with your System Administrator or a Telestream Field Sales Engineer).
1.
In Performance Options, set Windows Performance options:
–
Navigate
to
Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings >
Settings > Advanced.
–
Select
Background services
for Vantage transcoding nodes and SQL nodes.
–
Select
Programs
for editorial systems and Vantage client applications that are not
running other Vantage services.
2.
Disable Network throttling (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948066
):
–
Locate the
NetworkThrottlingIndex
registry value under this registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVer-
sion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\
–
Set the value to:
FFFFFFFF
3.
Return to Performance Options (step 1), Data Execution Prevention tab:
–
Select
Turn on
(select)
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for essential Windows
programs and services only
.
4.
Disable User Account Control (UAC) as follows:
–
In Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change User Account Control
Settings, select
Never Notify
.
5.
Set Power Options to High Performance with Sleep disabled:
–
Navigate to Start > Control Panel > Power Options.
–
Select the
High Performance
plan.
–
Set Sleep mode to
Never
(never sleep).
–
Select
Change advanced power settings
, and set all critical functions so that they
are always ON (this usually means setting them to
Never
turn OFF).
6.
Disable (turn OFF) any real-time software applications and processes, such as the
following, that could adversely affect disk I/O performance or use excessive CPU:
–
Real-time virus scanning of media files as they are being captured
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Automatic software updates that can preempt real-time services
–
Real-time file indexing
7.
Disable all unnecessary Windows services in the Start > Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Services (consult your System Administrator).
8.
Turn OFF all firewalls (including third party firewalls) and packet filtering, which may
cause unpredictable performance:
–
Set Start > Control Panel > Windows Firewall >
Turn off Windows Firewall.
