The following table displays the hardware specifications for Processing workers. These requirements are determined by the number of workers needed to achieve a specified range of throughput (# of GB/day).
Worker Specifications
CPU 8 core (physical)
RAM 16 GB
Network 1 Gbps
Storage Windows Temp SSD recommended
Server Physical recommended *
Expected throughput 100-150 GB/day **
* The primary reason for using physical workers is for performance. The overhead from virtualization can cause degradation in performance, particularly during text extraction and other CPU-intensive operations. If you do choose to virtualize your workers, beware of over-committing resources on the host. If you have hyper-threading enabled on the host, you may need to allocate 16 vCPUs to each worker to achieve results similar to those in the Processing performance baselines.
