Maximizing TCP Throughput in Linux: Understanding and Tuning Send and Receive Buffers

6 min readJan 2

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A standard performance tuning recommendation for distributed systems running on Linux is to adjust the tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem Kernel tunables. But what are these? Why are they important? How do they work?

In today's article, we are going to explore the tcp_rmem (Receive Buffer) and tcp_wmem (Send Buffer) work and how to…

Benjamin Cane

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Building payments systems at American Express. Author (https://amzn.to/3kuCFpz). Open-source contributor (https://github.com/madflojo).

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