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Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers
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Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers

by Sandra K. Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga, Badari Pulavarty
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 46m
English
IBM Press
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Chapter Twelve. Network Tuning

By Nivedita Singhvi

Introduction

The Linux kernel makes available a large set of kernel variables that can be tuned to configure the system for functionality and optimum performance. Additionally, the kernel makes a large amount of information about the system available to the user. Utilizing this information to ensure the system's health and detect problems in configuration and the network are critical performance tasks.

The predominant networking environment that applications run on is the TCP/IP (transport control protocol/Internet protocol) network protocol stack, with IP version 4 currently the standard. Linux is widely used as a platform to host network infrastructure services such as web servers, mail servers, ...

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