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"Sometimes people are looking for sysctl cargo cult values that bring high throughput and low latency with no trade-off and that works on every occasion."

That behavior was somewhat self inflicted by Linux distros that for a long time, shipped with lousy defaults. Not just for kernel settings, but for web servers, database servers, etc.

Such that changing the defaults did indeed, work magic.




And on the scale of "echo xxx > /proc/net/thing" to "Spend a month understanding what /proc/net/thing does (mostly) for versions in [3.y, 4.z]"

I'm guilty of choosing the easier one from time to time




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