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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.2

# Set up a commit/edge configuration

This section explains how you set up a commit/edge configuration. It assumes that you have an existing server that you want to convert to a commit server and that you are familiar with P4 Server management and operation. For the sake of this example, we’ll assume that the existing server is in Chicago, and that we need to set up an edge server at a remote site in Tokyo.

- commit server
  `P4PORT=chicago.perforce.com:1666`
  `P4ROOT=/chicago/p4root`
- edge server
  `P4PORT=tokyo.perforce.com:1666`
  `P4ROOT=/tokyo/p4root`

The setup process includes the following major steps:

1. Create the service user accounts.
2. Configure the servers.
3. Create and start the servers.

You must have `super` privileges to perform these steps.

To improve performance, consider using the configurable lbr.autocompress.

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