Posts in 2019

• tcp_tw_recycle No such file or directory

  September 15, 2019 in Linux

  Troubleshooting setting net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf caused error: sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle: No such file or directory

  What is net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle Per Linux kernel document networking/ip-sysctl.txt: tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0. It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts. This …

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• Huge improve TCP performance by BBR

  September 10, 2019 in Linux

  Huge improve Linux network performance by change TCP congestion control to BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT).

  What is BBR BBR is Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT. BBR congestion control computes the sending rate based on the delivery rate (throughput) estimated from ACKs. BBR was contributed to Linux kernel 4.9 since 2016 by Google. BBR has significantly …

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• Secure Squid Proxy Server

  August 25, 2019 in Linux

  Install and quick configure squid to make it securely

  Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Installation Install on Mac with brew $ brew install squid ==> …

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• Configure Debian startup services

  March 02, 2019 in Linux

  Configure debian start up services by sysv-rc-conf.

  I used to use chkconfig to configure which service to run at system start up. With my Raspberry Pi running based on Debian distribution, there is no chkconfig 😔. The replacement for Debian is sysv-rc-conf: Run-level configuration for SysV like init …

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