Hi all,
I order to reach maximum performance on my centos kvm hosts I have use these params:
- On /etc/grub.conf:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ elevator=deadline quiet
- On sysctl.conf
# Special network params
net.core.rmem_default = 8388608
net.core.wmem_default = 8388608
net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 1048576 4194304 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 1048576 4194304 16777216
# Disable netfilter on bridges.
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
# Virtual machines special kernel params
vm.swappiness = 0
Care to explain some of your choices.