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  1. @techgaun techgaun created this gist Feb 24, 2015.
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    ### KERNEL TUNING ###

    # 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

    # Sets the time before the kernel considers migrating a proccess to another core
    kernel.sched_migration_cost_ns = 5000000

    # Group tasks by TTY
    #kernel.sched_autogroup_enabled = 0

    ### 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

    # Control Syncookies
    net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 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 = 33554432

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

    # Maximum Socket Send Buffer
    net.core.wmem_max = 33554432

    # Increase number of incoming connections
    net.core.somaxconn = 65535

    # 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 = 786432 1048576 26777216
    net.ipv4.udp_mem = 65536 131072 262144

    # Increase the read-buffer space allocatable
    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 8192 87380 33554432
    net.ipv4.udp_rmem_min = 16384

    # Increase the write-buffer-space allocatable
    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 8192 65536 33554432
    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