Hi.
Been googling like crazy for sysctl tweaks which would be suitable for a loaded database system but have not found any why I’m turning to the forum.
I’ve created a quite nice sysctl.conf which I use with my lighttpd webservers but want something tweaked for databases.
I guess the vm should be tweaked in regards to overcommit etc and as well the net buffers but I’m not sure where to start.
Anyone ?
Tcp memory
net.core.rmem_max=16777216
net.core.wmem_max=16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 65536 16777216
Increase the number of incoming connections that can queue up before dropping
net.core.somaxconn = 262144
Big queue for the network device
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=30000
Apache Scaling suggests 1000 ?
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2
Lots of local ports for connections
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 1000000
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 300
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 0
These ensure that TIME_WAIT ports either get reused or closed fast.
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
Security
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1
Disables IP source routing
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.lo.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.eth1.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
Decrease the time default value for tcp_fin_timeout connection
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 30
Tuning the FS
fs.file-max = 5049800
Tuning the VM - According to [URL]http://kb.pert.geant2.net/PERTKB/ApacheScaling[/URL]
vm.min_free_kbytes = 204800
vm.page-cluster = 20
Apache tuning suggests 200…
vm.swappiness = 10