# General instance and processing settings

The following configuration settings are for the general instance setup and processing.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Set the number of textual-ml workers</strong></td><td>Used to enable parallel processing in Textual.</td><td></td><td><a href="general-instance-and-processing-settings/textual-config-ml-worker-count">textual-config-ml-worker-count</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure processing and parallelism</strong></td><td>Configure how Textual jobs are processed.</td><td></td><td><a href="general-instance-and-processing-settings/config-processing-parallelism">config-processing-parallelism</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure log format</strong></td><td>Set the format to use for Textual logs.</td><td></td><td><a href="general-instance-and-processing-settings/textual-config-log-format">textual-config-log-format</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Set a custom certificate</strong></td><td>Provide a custom certificate to use for https traffic.</td><td></td><td><a href="general-instance-and-processing-settings/textual-custom-certificate">textual-custom-certificate</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure custom AWS endpoints</strong></td><td>Set custom endpoint URLs for calls to AWS services.</td><td></td><td><a href="general-instance-and-processing-settings/custom-aws-endpoint-urls">custom-aws-endpoint-urls</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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