# Shared memory settings # Maximum total size of shared memory in pages (normally 4096 bytes) kernel.shmall = 6553600 # Maximum size of shared memory segment in bytes kernel.shmmax = 26843545600 # Virtual memory settings vm.swappiness = 0 vm.overcommit_memory = 2 # We don't want these numbers to be too large or else performance # will be too spiky. These seem to give a good balance between low # numbers and sequential write performance vm.dirty_ratio = 5 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 2