15 Tuning Oracle Traffic Director for Performance

This chapter describes how you can use statistical data about Oracle Traffic Director instances and virtual servers to identify potential performance bottlenecks. It also describes configuration changes that you can make to improve Oracle Traffic Director performance.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• General Tuning Guidelines

• Tuning Connection Handling Settings

• Tuning the File Descriptor Limit

• Tuning HTTP Request and Response Limits

• Tuning DNS Caching Settings

• Tuning SSL/TLS-Related Settings

• Configuring Access-Log Buffer Settings

• Enabling and Configuring Content Compression

• Tuning Connections to Origin Servers

• Solaris-specific Tuning