Second leve cache It's implemeted only in professional edition. By default hibernate comes with first level cache but we consider is not enought for middle great size repositories. Really with professional edition you can parametrize several cache level sizes based on objects, and we have a control of queries, times of query execution etc... I still have not got enought time to complete documentation but will be available at http://wiki.openkm.com/index.php/Utilities_admin then you'll be able to compare this feature among both version.
Hi alexis, can you share your final MySQL configuration parameteres ? I will add as other example in same wiki page, that can help other users.
The information we need is hardware and mysql for your installation. Sizes, for what I understood, 9GB in mysql and 600GB from repository. Which was your number of documents and folders ( that's also interesting ) and the Mysql final parameters. Finally your OpenKM version ( 5.x is quite difference than 6.x which has better performace ).