Kernel tuning for 500,000 sockets

[hard wyrd]

Here's a really interesting article from Urban Airship on tuning the linux kernel for 500,000 socket connections :)

http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-for-c500k/

Nosebleeding to some, a nice treat for others. 

Enjoy!

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[Jon Doblados]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM, hard wyrd <hard...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a really interesting article from Urban Airship on tuning the linux kernel for 500,000 socket connections :)

http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-for-c500k/

Nosebleeding to some, a nice treat for others. 

Sure brought back memories. We were troubleshooting frequent OOMs on one of our linode servers and everything described in this article would have easily enlightened us. :)

Jon

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[hard wyrd]

Yeah. This article was a little too late, but still very much early :D hehehe We might be able to use this for our EC2s as well. Who knows? :)