Questions tagged [sysctl]
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Is `vm.swapiness=0` equivalent to `swapoff -a` (in kernel >= 3.5)
Is setting in /etc/sysctl.conf:
vm.swappiness=0
equivalent (except that it's persistent) to running swapoff -a, *in Linux kernels >= 3.5?
*in earlier kernel versions, 0 meant 'no swapping until out ...
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What's the default value of the admin_reserve_kbytes kernel parameter?
Many of the kernel parameters have default values assigned. But some of them aren't really clear. I'm reading the proc manual and in the case of admin_reserve_kbytes we can read the following:
The ...
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Kernel parameter about max threads not being applied
I have manually edited /etc/sysctl.conf and added this line
kernel.threads-max=70000
However despite the fact that
# cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep thread
kernel.threads-max=70000
what I see is that
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oracle 11g installation on ubuntu 16.04 sysctl permission denied?
I am trying to install oracle 11g on ubuntu 16.04
after setting oracle 11g xe kernel parameters successfully
# Oracle 11g XE kernel parameters
fs.file-max=6815744
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=...
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Disabling all devices in /proc/acpi/wakeup permanently
In an effort to weed out an acpi problem, I need to set all the /proc/acpi/wakeup device variables to disabled.
For the time being I'm doing it with acpitool and a script in /etc/rc.local ...
usr/...
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how to turn off tcp timestamps?
I tried to turn off the tcp timestamp but it didn't work.
The step i performed are the following:
$ sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
$ sysctl -p
$ sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps (=> to be sure ...
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What's the purpose of use_tempaddr=1 kernel parameter?
Reading sysctl docs, I found the following:
use_tempaddr - INTEGER
Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
<= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
== 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, ...
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Enabling rp_filter loose (#2) mode for IPv6
does anyone have a solution to make reverse path filtering work (in loose mode) also for IPv6 and not only for IPv4?
The setup I am having is a machine1 connected directly to a machine2, while ...
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Writeback cache (`dirty`) seems to be limited below the expected threshold where throttling starts. What is it being limited by?
In a previous question and answer, I showed an experiment about dirty_ratio.
Writeback cache (`dirty`) seems to be limited to even less than dirty_background_ratio. What is it being limited by? How ...
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How do I make my system only use swap when RAM is totally full?
In the past, setting vm.swappiness to 0 meant the system would only swap when RAM was totally full.
$ cat /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
kernel.sysrq = 1
vm.swappiness=0
$ sysctl vm.swappiness
vm....
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Writeback cache (`dirty`) seems to be limited to even less than dirty_background_ratio. What is it being limited by? How is this limit calculated?
I have been testing Linux 4.18.16-200.fc28.x86_64. My system has 7.7G total RAM, according to free -h.
I have default values for the vm.dirty* sysctl's. dirty_background_ratio is 10, and ...
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Differences between forwarding and redirect in net.inet.ip
What are the differences between sysctl variables net.inet.ip.forwarding and net.inet.ip.redirect?
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Is sysctl.conf last match?
Where can I find the official documentation that sysctl.conf is last match based?
So, there are two entries in the /etc/sysctl.conf file:
vm.swappiness=10
vm.swappiness=11
Which will win? The ...
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Can't ping anything when IPV6 is disabled
When I disable IPV6 on my Debian install I can't reach the internet, and whenever I ping anything I get ping: unknown host ...
This is how I am currently disabling IPV6
net.ipv6.conf.all....
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sysctl command returning info not asked about
I want to grep a particular kernel setting as follows
$ sudo sysctl -a --ignore | grep -i max_map_count 2>/dev/null
sysctl: reading key "net.ipv6.conf.all.stable_secret"
sysctl: reading key "net....
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do you have to restart services after running sysctl -p?
I'm increasing the watch limit on my RHEL 7 server and I'd like my changes to take effect without having to reboot. I've updated the /etc/sysctl.conf file so that the changes will be permanent. If I ...
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Disable core file generation in RHEL7
I'm currently running RHEL7. I haven't been able to find a definitive explanation of how to disable core dump files. I can limit to number of core files that are produced, but I don't know how to ...
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editing sysctl.conf on oracle linux 7.5
I am going to install oracle database 12c on oracle linux 7.5. In the process, I have to edit following kernel parameters and set values.
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.shmall = ...
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How to set and understand fs.notify.max_user_watches
I don't understand the best way to set fs.inotify.max_user_watches with sysctl. In fact, I don't understand much of what is happening here other than the fact that I need to set the number of files ...
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Log sysctl changes to a particular variable
Is there any way I can log (preferably only a particular variable, vm.swappiness) because I want to find when and what changes vm.swappiness value to 1 during boot even though I have configured it to ...
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lsmod gives error: “could not get list of modules” on Debian running on WSL
When I run lsmod or sudo lsmod, I get an error that says:
libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1655 kmod_module_new_from_loaded: could not open /proc/modules: No such file or directory
Error: ...
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Can't change kernel.printk value
I want to set kernel.printk value to 5 4 1 1 for disable logging on booting but when I try
sysctl -w kernel.printk="5 4 1 1"
I get error:
sysctl: setting key "kernel.printk": Invalid argument
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Open file handles
As I spawn several processes in a loop, I hit the maximum number of open files handles and the for loop breaks.
When I count the open file handles using lsof I get:
$ lsof | wc -l
1464377
However ...
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What is the difference between ping localhost and ping 127.0.0.1?
After executing the following to disable ping replies:
# sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
# sysctl -p
I obtain different results from pinging localhost vs. 127.0.0.1
# ping -c 3 localhost
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Using a large number of nullfs mounts to create a virtual FS on FreeBSD - what are the practical limits + impacts?
I have a situation where I'm possibly going to create a virtual file system on FreeBSD, comprised entirely of nullfs mounts of selected "ordinary" dirs within my various ZFS datasets (and their ...
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Fedora /etc/sysctl.conf not loaded upon boot
I am running Fedora 27 with kernel 4.14.5 and have a problem that /etc/sysctl.conf is not being loaded upon boot.
If I run:
sudo sysctl -p
after boot, my settings are loaded and everything works ...
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Difference between modprobe and sysctl -w in terms of setting system parameters?
We know that sysctl command can change kernel parameters with :
# sysctl -w kernel.domainname="example.com"
or by directly editing the file in /proc/sys directory. And for persistent changes, the ...
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Less than 1000 possible connections although I updated sysctl
I ran c1000k on my CentOS 7.2 machine and it told me
connections: 921
error: Too many open files
Because of this I changed my /etc/sysctl.conf to contain this:
fs.file-max = 2097152
But even ...
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write error for rmem_max on Angstrom
I am trying to tune the UDP receive and transmit buffer size. According to my real time application needs, I need to configure the Tx buffer as 6 bytes and Rx buffer as 22 bytes.
I am running Angstrom ...
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Why is my `net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1`?
I just discovered accidentally that cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward returns 1. I can't remember having enabled net.ipv4.ip_forward anytime ago, but since my system runs for several years now, I can'...
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Can I restrict dmesg to a group?
I understand that, for security reasons (like address randomization), it makes some sense to not let every user be able to read the kernel's dmesg. Linux allows one to restrict dmesg to the root user ...
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dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Permission denied
Since recently Debian has changed the default behavior for dmesg and I cannot use it simply from my local user.
% dmesg
dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted
Same goes for:
% ...
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Does changing sysctl require a process restart?
I'm on a redhat machine. I'm changing the value of max_map_count via sysctl:
# sysctl vm.max_map_count
vm.max_map_count = 65530
# sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=655300
vm.max_map_count = 655300
# sysctl ...
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sysctl IPv6 funtional defaults
ip-sysctl.txt:
accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
disabled if ...
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linux sysctl tunable knob kernel.yama.ptrace_scope
The reference lists as values 0,1,2,3.
Today I tried it on two servers :
kernel 3.0.0
sysctl -w kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=3
error: "Invalid argument" setting key "kernel.yama.ptrace_scope"
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What's the difference between setting open file limits in /etc/sysctl.conf vs /etc/security/limits.conf?
I've read two separate ways of increasing the allowed open file count (I'm attempting to modify for root, if it matters).
One way is to update the settings in /etc/security/limits.conf with something ...
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From where does sysctl -a print all kernel parameters?
We have a Linux machine (Redhat 6)
When we print all parameters from /etc/sysctl.conf we see only ~20
but when we perform sysctl -a we see more than 200.
So from where sysctl -a print all these ...
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Default kernel parameters on new network namespaces
What are the default kernel parameters, when creating a new network namespace? Is there a way to override them upon creation?
I think they are inherited by the parent process. An example using ...
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ulimit value not changing for a process
We have a ruby application that started throwing lot of "unable to create new socket: Too many open files" errors recently
I have updated "etc/security/limits.conf" as below
root soft nofile ...
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Kernel module for net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables
This is on the Linux OS.
I see that on some machines the net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables variable doesn't exist until I modprobe the br_netfilter filter. I also see that there are some machines ...
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Gratuitous ARP packet gets not send out even if “arp_notify” in sysctl is set to 1 on OpenWRT
I am running a router on OpenWRT 15.05.1 and I did notice, that it does not send out Gratuitous ARP packets on a change of the IP address, nor on a reboot, nor on change of the Ethernet link state.
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Is there an alternative for net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind on FreeBSD?
On Linux (Kernel >= 4.3) I can "claim" an entire IPv6 subnet by routing it to localhost (sf#403648), and then by setting net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind=1 so that I can bind on any of these addresses.
I ...
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Why is editing core_pattern restricted?
This question is associated with Where is core file with abrt-hook-cpp installed? .
While I was trying to generate a core file for an intentionally-crashing program, at first core file generation ...
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change TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN at runtime
Linux kernel defines a timeout to destroy TIME-WAIT state of a connection in include/net/tcp.h:
#define TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN (60*HZ)
Is there a way to change this parameter at runtime, via sysctl or /...
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Linux + kernel tuning parameters
I configured the following parametersbut after restart the values return to the previews values.
How to configure them as permanent?
echo 500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 3 > /...
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How can I configure system not respond to ICMPv6 echo requests sent to a broadcast address
I am attempting it by using echo command and it gives me the below error
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t040ml000002:/proc/sys/net/ipv4 # echo “1” > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp_echo_ignore_all
-bash: /proc/sys/net/...
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How to limit range of random port sockets?
There's a binary that I need to run which uses bind with a port argument of zero, to get a random free port from the system. Is there a way I can constrain the range of ports the kernel is allowed to ...
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How to enable user_namespaces in the kernel? (For unprivileged `unshare`.)
My Linux kernel must have been configured with user_namespaces when built, but their use is restricted after boot and has to be explicitly enabled. Which sysctl should I use?
(If this was turned on, ...
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Why remount of /proc/sys is not global or does not persist in network namespace inside LXC
I have host running RHEL-7.2. Inside that running LXC. Inside LXC creating network namespaces. Inside the namespace changing sysctl variables was failing (as root):
$ ip netns add testns
$ ip netns ...
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Where is the __sysctl function defined in FreeBSD?
I am reading the source code to understand sysctl in FreeBSD.
It looks like the most important function
int __sysctl(const int *name, u_int namelen, void *oldp, size_t *oldlenp, const void *newp, ...
