Tuning The System; Installing Third-Party Utilities - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 Installation Manual

Operating System Requirements

Tuning the System

This section contains some basic system tuning information. Keep in mind that
changing any of the following kernel-tuning parameters requires a system reboot.
• NFS Tuning — This tuning is recommended if you are using Directory Server
to write to NFS mounted drives. On Linux, NFS is typically recommended to
be done over TCP and not over UDP. Make the following change to the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs
• TCP Tuning — You can increase number of local system ports available by
running this command:
You can also achive the same by editing this parameter in the
/etc/sysctl.conf
• File Tuning — You can increase the file descriptors by running these
commands:
or edit this parameter in the

Installing Third-Party Utilities

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+ localoptions='rsize=8192,wsize=8192,vers=3,tcp'
echo "1024 65000" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4.ip_local_port_range
file:
[ echo "1024 65000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf ]
echo "64000" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
[ echo "fs.file-max = 64000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf ]
echo "* soft nofile 8192" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "* hard nofile 8192" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
echo "ulimit -n 8192" >> /etc/profile
echo "session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so" >>
/etc/security/limits.conf
utility to unpack the Directory Server software. The
gunzip
and programs are described in more detail at
gzip gunzip
file:
file:
/etc/sysctl.conf
and can be obtained from