OS tuning an nginx webserver machine

Hi all,

Recently I resorted to tuning my nginx webserver box for more
performance.
I went ahead an changed

sudo ip route change default via 1.25.29.1 dev eth0 initcwnd 10

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle=0

This changed exposed a much better performance than anticipated. And
since
most of my pages are httpd cached, the load times went down from 2.3 – 3
seconds to 1.5-2 seconds

While browsing I came across another
benchmarkinghttp://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/500000-requestssec-modern-http-servers-are-fast/

echo “2048 64512” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

echo “1” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle

echo “1” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse

echo “10” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout

echo “65536” > /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn

echo “65536” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog

echo “262144” > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max

worker_processes 16;

worker_rlimit_nofile 262144;

daemon off;

events {

use epoll;

worker_connections 16384;

}

error_log error.log;

pid /dev/null;

http {

sendfile on;

tcp_nopush on;

keepalive_requests 100;

open_file_cache max=100;

gzip off;

gzip_min_length 1024;

access_log off;

server {

listen *:8080 backlog=16384;



location / {

  root   html;

  index  index.html;

}

}

}

But the type of machines that the tester has used does not allow me to
believe the results.
http://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/500000-requestssec-modern-http-servers-are-fast/

Have someone else gone along the same path? Are these system variable
changes recommended by the nginx community?

-Quintin