Be careful when tuning your Li …

Be careful when tuning your Linux servers. Sometimes strange things happen. I followed some of the directions listed here and our server rejected half the connections to Apache. I rectified that by making the values smaller, like this:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
echo 19000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Stats are up on previous days, so when tuning file handles go up slowly, not to the levels the previous document stated.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

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