diff --git a/core/src/com/cloud/network/HAProxyConfigurator.java b/core/src/com/cloud/network/HAProxyConfigurator.java
index 23d35f81364..00ba0d34fe9 100644
--- a/core/src/com/cloud/network/HAProxyConfigurator.java
+++ b/core/src/com/cloud/network/HAProxyConfigurator.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import com.cloud.utils.net.NetUtils;
  */
 public class HAProxyConfigurator implements LoadBalancerConfigurator {
 	private static String [] globalSection = {"global",
-			"\tlog 127.0.0.1:3914   local0 info",
+			"\tlog 127.0.0.1:3914   local0 warning",
 			"\tmaxconn 4096",
 			"\tchroot /var/lib/haproxy",
 			"\tuser haproxy",
@@ -139,8 +139,7 @@ public class HAProxyConfigurator implements LoadBalancerConfigurator {
 			sb = new StringBuilder();
 			sb.append("\t").append("server ").append(poolName)
 			   .append("_").append(Integer.toString(i++)).append(" ")
-			   .append(rule.getDstIp()).append(":").append(rule.getDstPortRange()[0])
-			   .append(" check");
+			   .append(rule.getDstIp()).append(":").append(rule.getDstPortRange()[0]);
 			result.add(sb.toString());
 		}
 		result.add(getBlankLine());
diff --git a/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/sysctl.conf b/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/sysctl.conf
index 71acc2b6f04..71b90f08d2a 100644
--- a/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/sysctl.conf
+++ b/patches/systemvm/debian/config/etc/sysctl.conf
@@ -36,4 +36,7 @@ kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
 # Controls the use of TCP syncookies
 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
 
-net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max=65536
+net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max=1000000
+net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
+net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=1000000
+net.core.somaxconn=1000000