Index throughput

The throughput of P4 Search depends on the size of your deployment and the types of files you have.

The following table displays the number of files indexed per minute for typical configurations of P4 Search and its services in a medium site deployment.

To learn more about deployment sizes, see System requirements.

Files

Throughput (files/min)

P4 Search configuration

Elasticsearch configuration

DeepDetect1 configuration P4 Render2 configuration

Text

< 30GB total file size

< 3,000,000 files

8000

12 CPUs

32GB RAM

4 CPUs at low utilization

32GB RAM

N/A N/A

Images

< 30GB total file size

< 100,000 files

700

16 CPUs

32GB RAM

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

N/A N/A

Images with AI tagging

< 30GB total file size

< 100,000 files

50

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

64 CPUs

48GB RAM

N/A

3D assets

< 900GB total file size

< 20,000 files

80

10 CPUs

32GB RAM

4 CPUs

32GB RAM

N/A

16 instances

64 CPUs

64GB RAM

  1. DeepDetect is used for AI tagging.

  2. P4 Render is used for 3D rendering.