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• Server Host: Vultr (www.vultr.com)
• CPU: 3.6 Ghz Intel CPU (dual single core)
• Memory: 2GB1GB
• Disk: 40GB 20GB SSD
• OS: CentOS Linux 7.0
• Cache Size: 1GB
• Browser: Google Chrome v40v43

Testing Regimen

The following settings have been tested against the following:

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CONFIG proxy.config.http.keep_alive_no_activity_timeout_in INT 300900
CONFIG proxy.config.http.keep_alive_no_activity_timeout_out INT 300900
CONFIG proxy.config.http.transaction_no_activity_timeout_in INT 105
CONFIG proxy.config.http.transaction_no_activity_timeout_out INT 105
CONFIG proxy.config.http.transaction_active_timeout_in INT 14400
CONFIG proxy.config.http.transaction_active_timeout_out INT 14400
CONFIG proxy.config.http.accept_no_activity_timeout INT 105
CONFIG proxy.config.net.default_inactivity_timeout INT 105

Network

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Settings

The following settings control various network-related settings within ATS.

The first This setting controls how often Traffic Server will internally poll to process network events.  Even though I'm now on a machine that can handle 2-3% CPU load, I decided to reduce this.  I haven't noticed any significant performance difference as a result of this.

The second and third/fourth settings relate more closely to OS-tuning that's documented in the next wiki page.

The second setting removes the TCP_NODELAY option from origin server connections.  Once one has told Linux to optimize for latency, this appears to be no longer necessary.

The third/fourth settings specify the socket buffer sizes for origin server connections.  I've found setting this to roughly my "average object size" as reported by "traffic_top" appears to be optimal.

CONFIG proxy.config.net.poll_timeout INT 50
CONFIG proxy.config.net.sock_option_flag_out INT 0

Cache Control

The following configurations tell Traffic Server to be more aggressive than it would otherwise, with regard to caching overall as well as some speed-ups.

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CONFIG proxy.config.http.cache.cache_urls_that_look_dynamic INT 0
CONFIG proxy.config.http.chunking.size INT 256K64K
CONFIG proxy.config.http.cache.ims_on_client_no_cache INT 0
CONFIG proxy.config.http.cache.ignore_server_no_cache INT 1

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CONFIG proxy.config.net.connections_throttle INT 2K1K

RAM And Disk Cache Configuration

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CONFIG proxy.config.cache.ram_cache.size INT 64M8M
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.ram_cache_cutoff INT 8M 1M
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.ram_cache.algorithm INT 1
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.min_average_object_size INT 32K24K
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.target_fragment_size INT 4M
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.mutex_retry_delay INT 50
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.enable_read_while_writer INT 02

Logging Configuration

The defaults for Traffic Server specify a squid-compatible logfile that's binary in nature.  I prefer to have the file readable so I'm overriding this.

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Third, I also allow the cache to use stale DNS records for up to 15 minutes 60 seconds while they're being updated.  This also contributes to cache speed.

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# HostDB
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CONFIG proxy.config.hostdb.ip_resolve STRING ipv6;ipv4
CONFIG proxy.config.hostdb.size INT 48K
CONFIG proxy.config.hostdb.storage_size INT 12M
CONFIG proxy.config.hostdb.serve_stale_for INT 90060
CONFIG proxy.config.cache.hostdb.sync_frequency INT 900

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