Linux Kernel Parameter Tuning for Performance Testing

Here are some of the kernel parameters I used on one of the Linux system /etc/sysctl.conf

# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux

#

# For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled.  See sysctl(8) and

# sysctl.conf(5) for more details.

# Controls IP packet forwarding

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

# Controls source route verification

net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1

# Do not accept source routing

net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0

# Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel

kernel.sysrq = 0

# Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename

# Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications

kernel.core_uses_pid = 1

# Controls the use of TCP syncookies

net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

# Controls the maximum size of a message, in bytes

kernel.msgmnb = 65536

# Controls the default maxmimum size of a mesage queue

kernel.msgmax = 65536

# Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes

kernel.shmmax = 68719476736

# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages

kernel.shmall = 4294967296

fs.file-max = 6815744

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1

net.core.wmem_max = 8388608

net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 87380 8388608

net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 8388608

net.core.rmem_max = 8388608

net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 2500