
			### IMPROVE SYSTEM MEMORY MANAGEMENT ###

# Increase size of file handles and inode cache
fs.file-max = 2097152

# Do less swapping
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.dirty_ratio = 60
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 2

### GENERAL NETWORK SECURITY OPTIONS ###

# Number of times SYNACKs for passive TCP connection.
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2

# Allowed local port range
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 2000 65535

# Protect Against TCP Time-Wait
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1

# Decrease the time default value for tcp_fin_timeout connection
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 15

# Decrease the time default value for connections to keep alive
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 300
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 5
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 15

### TUNING NETWORK PERFORMANCE ###

# Default Socket Receive Buffer
net.core.rmem_default = 31457280

# Maximum Socket Receive Buffer
net.core.rmem_max = 12582912

# Default Socket Send Buffer
net.core.wmem_default = 31457280

# Maximum Socket Send Buffer
net.core.wmem_max = 12582912

# Increase number of incoming connections
net.core.somaxconn = 4096

# Increase number of incoming connections backlog
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 65536

# Increase the maximum amount of option memory buffers
net.core.optmem_max = 25165824

# Increase the maximum total buffer-space allocatable
# This is measured in units of pages (4096 bytes)
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 65536 131072 262144
net.ipv4.udp_mem = 65536 131072 262144

# Increase the read-buffer space allocatable
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 8192 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.udp_rmem_min = 16384

# Increase the write-buffer-space allocatable
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 8192 65536 16777216
net.ipv4.udp_wmem_min = 16384

# Increase the tcp-time-wait buckets pool size to prevent simple DOS attacks
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 1440000
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1

Load Changes

Run following command to load changes to sysctl.


			sysctl -p

Useful Systcl Commands

This section is added to main post after Ovidiu’s comment.

Show all system parameters with their values (default or changed)


			sysctl -A

Show values of parameters modified by you


			sysctl -p

Show value for a single parameter parameter-name


			sysctl parameter-name

Change value for a single parameter parameter-name without editing sysctl.conf manually.


			sysctl -w parameter-name=parameter-value

Above command will overwrite any previous modifications to parameter-name. Also, you may need to surround parameter-value with quotes.

I do not have in-depth explanation for all parameters. Comments will guide you somewhat.

You can check https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/increase-open-files-limit/ for more details about fs.file-max

Credits

We do not have expertise to tweak linux at such level. So following links helped. They differ from most configs as they offered some explanation about parameters which helped us understand what we are picking and why!

http://klaver.it/linux/sysctl.conf

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Comments

ovidiu

October 21, 2013

Can you please share how to check the current / default values for variables that are not specificaly defined inside sysctl.conf?
1. Rahul Bansal
  
  October 21, 2013
  
  Added a separate section for sysctl commands in main-article. Please check again.
  1. ovidiu
    
    October 21, 2013
    
    Thanks 🙂
Michael

January 22, 2014

Hey Rahul, thanks a lot for this.
Some net.core values you listed twice with different values (rmem_default, rmem_max, wmem_default, wmem_max). What are the preferred values here?
1. Rahul Bansal
  
  January 24, 2014
  
  Thanks for finding typo. I updated article to remove duplicates.
  
  Technically, I am yet to find a formula to compute them mathematically, may be based on system RAM or other resources. So I use these values across most of our setups and so far they are working nice.
Cris

January 29, 2014

Many thanks for this guys!
I’m just wondering why the “net.core.netdev_max_backlog” is duplicated… could you please tell me?
TNX!
1. Rahul Bansal
  
  February 3, 2014
  
  It was a typo. Fixed it. Thanks for bringing it to attention.