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How to improve performance

super_saiyan
Communicator

Lets assume, I have a linux machine and installed universal forwarder in that.

can i improve the performance by changing some parameters in os kernel ?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

How do you know you have a performance issue?

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super_saiyan
Communicator

i am not having any performance issue. i am just curious if i can optimize the performance more by doing some changes in setting in os kernal level.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Let me quote from Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming":

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming."

So even though some kernel tweaking might improve efficiency in some border cases, it's usually not the way to go.

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