Operations

These pages are about keeping SOF useful under real traffic, not just making examples compile.

If SOF is still new, start with:

  1. Before You Start
  2. Common Questions
  3. First Runtime Bring-Up

Operating Principles

  • start from safe defaults
  • measure before changing queue or thread counts
  • treat ingress choice as the first performance decision, not a late tuning detail
  • treat outbound relay and repair traffic as an explicit posture decision
  • prefer typed tuning profiles over copying environment bundles
  • document host-specific changes so they are reproducible

Read This Section For

  • choosing the right deployment mode
  • understanding SOF's relay and repair behavior
  • understanding what SOF can and cannot change about latency
  • finding the safe baseline before expert-only tuning
  • looking up one specific runtime knob quickly in the Knob Registry

The main split in this section is:

SOF 2026