```bash
echo " updating kernel settings"
cat << EOF >> /etc/sysctl.conf
# SWAP settings
vm.swappiness=0
vm.panic_on_oom=0
vm.overcommit_memory=1
kernel.panic=10
kernel.panic_on_oops=1
vm.max_map_count = 262144

# Have a larger connection range available
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=1024 65000

# Increase max connection
net.core.somaxconn=10000

# Reuse closed sockets faster
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=15

# The maximum number of "backlogged sockets".  Default is 128.
net.core.somaxconn=4096
net.core.netdev_max_backlog=4096

# 16MB per socket - which sounds like a lot,
# but will virtually never consume that much.
net.core.rmem_max=16777216
net.core.wmem_max=16777216

# Various network tunables
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=20480
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=400000
net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries=2
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=2
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 65536 16777216

# ARP cache settings for a highly loaded docker swarm
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh1=8096
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh2=12288
net.ipv4.neigh.default.gc_thresh3=16384

# ip_forward and tcp keepalive for iptables
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=600
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

# monitor file system events
fs.inotify.max_user_instances=8192
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576
EOF
sysctl -p > /dev/null 2>&1
```