Tuning gunicorn at kernel level

I'm considering to switch from Apache/mod_wsgi to nginx/gunicorn for a couple of projects here on WF.

My only concern is about kernel tuning for gunicorn. My questions:

can I increase the maximum number of file descriptors?
Can I increase the maximum socket backlog?

Reference: gunicorn kernel parameters

asked Sep 27 '12 at 17:57

Guandalino
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Those settings can not be changed by anyone other than root.

Currently open files is 4096 and net.core.somaxconn is 128.

answered Sep 27 '12 at 18:05

bmeyer71 ♦♦
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Thanks for the reply. I can't get a measure of these numbers. Do I risk to go out of file descriptors? Do a backlog of 128 is enough? If it's not the requests will be refused. Also consider that other users can contribute consuming these resources, if they run gunicorn as me.

(Sep 27 '12 at 18:24) Guandalino

The file limit is for each user. As for the socket backlog, yes it could be a possibility that limit could cause a problem. However, we do have a number of users that are using gunicorn and have not reported any problems.

(Sep 27 '12 at 18:31) bmeyer71 ♦♦

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