Tuning EMQX to Scale to One Million Concurrent Connection on Kubernetes

Reference Tuning EMQX to Scale to One Million Concurrent Connection on Kubernetes Performance Tuning (Linux) 矽谷牛的耕田筆記 Note Linux Kernel Tuning node level, basically the non-namespaced sysctls # Sets the maximum number of file handles allowed by the kernel sysctl -w fs.file-max=2097152 # Sets the maximum number of open file descriptors that a process can have sysctl -w fs.nr_open=2097152 namespaced sysctls # Sets the maximum number of connections that can be queued for acceptance by the kernel. sysctl -w net.core.somaxconn=32768 # Sets the maximum number of SYN requests that can be queued by the kernel sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=16384 # Setting the minimum, default and maximum size of TCP Buffer sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem='1024 4096 16777216' sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem='1024 4096 16777216' # Setting Parameters for TCP Connection Tracking sysctl -w net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait=30 # Controls the maximum number of entries in the TCP time-wait bucket table sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=1048576 # Controls Timeout for FIN-WAIT-2 Sockets: sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=15 There are some more namespaced sysctls that will improve the performance but because of an active issue we are not able to set them on the container level # Sets the size of the backlog queue for the network device sysctl -w net.core.netdev_max_backlog=16384 # Amount of memory that is allocated for storing incoming and outgoing data for a socket sysctl -w net.core.rmem_default=262144 sysctl -w net.core.wmem_default=262144 # Setting the maximum amount of memory for the socket buffers sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=16777216 sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=16777216 sysctl -w net.core.optmem_max=16777216 Erlang VM Tuning ## Erlang Process Limit node.process_limit = 2097152 ## Sets the maximum number of simultaneously existing ports for this system node.max_ports = 2097152 EMQX Broker Tuning # Other configuration… EMQX_LISTENER__TCP__EXTERNAL: "0.0.0.0:1883" EMQX_LISTENER__TCP__EXTERNAL__ACCEPTORS: 64 EMQX_LISTENER__TCP__EXTERNAL__MAX_CONNECTIONS: 1024000