Posted on February 21, 2014 at 12:24 am
After doing some research, I tested various parameters on the file /etc/sysctl.conf and I encountered various errors like “name lookup timed out”, “connection timed out” and “999 INKApi Error” while using web server like Nginx or Lighttpd under 1000+ concurrent connections. What should be taken into consideration is that some shared hosting and dedicated servers do not allow to change parameters in sysctl.conf related to routing, ICMP requests, and so on. I would recommend to use only the following tweaks on /etc/sysctl.conf file:
# Safe optimizations fs.file-max = 150000 kernel.pid_max = 4194303 net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 3240000 net.core.somaxconn = 50000 net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 1440000 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535 net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 3240000 # Testing optimizations net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 120 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 0 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 600 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 10 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 9 net.ipv4.tcp_retries2 = 8 # Disable IPv6 addrconf net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf=0 net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf=0 net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf=0 net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra = 0 |
For the changes to take effect type:
sysctl -p |
Here is a screenshot of the concurrent connections test:
References and useful links:
Linux Network Tuning for 2013
sysctl – Kernel Optimization – /etc/sysctl.conf
Kernel sysctl configuration file for Linux
sysctl.conf – tweaking for high concurrancy & security
Testing Performance > How-To
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