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title: Preparing the operating system (Linux)
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# Preparing the operating system (Linux)

Several operating system customizations can improve server performance on Linux systems.

These customizations include:

* [Configuring the file descriptor limits](pd_ds_config_file_descriptor_limits.html)

* [Tuning the file system](pd_ds_tune_file_system.html)

* [Setting the maximum user processes](pd_ds_set_maximum_user_processes.html)

* [Editing OS-level environment variables](pd_ds_edit_os_env_variables.html)

* [Installing sysstat and pstack (Red Hat)](pd_ds_install_sysstat_pstack_red_hat.html)

* [Installing dstat (SUSE Linux)](pd_ds_install_dstat_suse.html)

* [Disabling file system swapping](pd_proxy_disable_file_system_swapping.html)

* [Adjusting system memory allocation](pd_ds_adjust_system_memory_alloc.html)

* [Omitting the `vm.overcommit_memory` property](pd_ds_omit_vmovercommit_memory.html)

* [Managing system entropy](pd_ds_manage_system_entropy.html)

* [Setting file system event monitoring (`inotify`)](pd_ds_set_file_system_event_monitoring.html)

* [Tuning the I/O scheduler](pd_ds_tune_io_scheduler.html)