Description of configuration options for [app:object-server] in object-server.conf-sample

Configuration option=Default value	Description
use=egg:swift#object	Entry point of paste.deploy in the server
set log_name=object-server	Label to use when logging
set log_facility=LOG_LOCAL0	Syslog log facility
set log_level=INFO	Log level
set log_requests=true	Whether or not to log requests
set log_address=/dev/log	No help text available for this option
node_timeout=3	Request timeout to external services
conn_timeout=0.5	Connection timeout to external services
network_chunk_size=65536	Size of chunks to read/write over the network
disk_chunk_size=65536	Size of chunks to read/write to disk
max_upload_time=86400	Maximum time allowed to upload an object
slow=0	If > 0, Minimum time in seconds for a PUT or DELETE request to complete
keep_cache_size=5424880	Largest object size to keep in buffer cache
keep_cache_private=false	Allow non-public objects to stay in kernel's buffer cache
mb_per_sync=512	On PUT requests, sync file every n MB
allowed_headers=Content-Disposition, Content-Encoding, X-Delete-At, X-Object-Manifest, X-Static-Large-Object	Comma-separated list of headers that can be set in metadata of an object
auto_create_account_prefix=.	Prefix to use when automatically creating accounts
replication_server=false	If defined, tells server how to handle replication verbs in requests. When set to True (or 1), only replication verbs will be accepted. When set to False, replication verbs will be rejected. When undefined, server will accept any verb in the request.
threads_per_disk=0	Size of the per-disk thread pool used for performing disk I/O. The default of 0 means to not use a per-disk thread pool. It is recommended to keep this value small, as large values can result in high read latencies due to large queue depths. A good starting point is 4 threads per disk.