diff --git a/bridgehead b/bridgehead
index 68e29e1..62cb38e 100755
--- a/bridgehead
+++ b/bridgehead
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ loadVars() {
 		source /etc/bridgehead/$PROJECT.local.conf || fail_and_report 1 "Found /etc/bridgehead/$PROJECT.local.conf but failed to import"
 	fi
 	fetchVarsFromVaultByFile /etc/bridgehead/$PROJECT.conf || fail_and_report 1 "Unable to fetchVarsFromVaultByFile"
-	setBlazeMemoryCap
+	optimizeBlazeMemoryUsage
 	[ -e ./$PROJECT/vars ] && source ./$PROJECT/vars
 	set +a
 
diff --git a/lib/functions.sh b/lib/functions.sh
index ab904d3..ecd330f 100644
--- a/lib/functions.sh
+++ b/lib/functions.sh
@@ -155,13 +155,26 @@ setHostname() {
 	fi
 }
 
-# blaze memory cap should be approximately a quarter of the system memory
-# the memory cap will be applied to both the java heap size and db clock cache
-setBlazeMemoryCap() {
+# This function optimizes the usage of memory through blaze, according to the official performance tuning guide:
+#   https://github.com/samply/blaze/blob/master/docs/tuning-guide.md
+# Short summary of the adjustments made:
+# - set blaze memory cap to a quarter of the system memory
+# - set db block cache size to a quarter of the system memory
+# - limit resource count allowed in blaze to 1,25M per 4GB available system memory
+optimizeBlazeMemoryUsage() {
 	if [ -z "$BLAZE_MEMORY_CAP" ]; then
 	   system_memory_in_mb=$(free -m | grep 'Mem:' | awk '{print $2}');
 	   export BLAZE_MEMORY_CAP=$(("$system_memory_in_mb"/4));
 	fi
+	if [ -z "$BLAZE_RESOURCE_CACHE_CAP" ]; then
+		available_system_memory_chuncks=$((BLAZE_MEMORY_CAP / 1000))
+		if [ $available_system_memory_chuncks -eq 0 ]; then
+			log WARN "Only ${BLAZE_MEMORY_CAP} system memory available for Blaze. If your Blaze stores more than 128000 fhir ressources it will run significally slower."
+			export BLAZE_RESOURCE_CACHE_CAP=128000;
+		else
+			export BLAZE_RESOURCE_CACHE_CAP=$((available_system_memory_chuncks * 312500))
+		fi
+	fi
 }
 
 # Takes 1) The Backup Directory Path 2) The name of the Service to be backuped