Operating System Tuning

In any high-load environment, the network must be closely monitored to ensure that its performance is acceptable and consistent. Note that, the following is not to suggest that all network parameters are set to these values, but merely make the reader aware that the network is also an entity in the performance environment and bottleneck resolution process.

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N E T W O R K T U N I N G

Use smitty->Performance and Resource Scheduling->Tuning Kernel and Network Parameters->Tuning Network Option Parameters->Change/Show Current Parameters to change. These will take effect immediately, improving the network layer performance in high volume environments.

Then remember to ‘Save current parameters for NextBoot’.

Table 11: AIX Network Settings

Parameter

Value

 

 

tcp_sendspace

131072

 

 

tcp_recvspace

131072

 

 

udp_sendspace

65536

 

 

udp_recvspace

655360

 

 

somaxconn

10000

 

 

tcp_nodelayack

1

 

 

rfc1323

1

 

 

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