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Updated at July 17, 2026   02:08 PM

Submodule box.cfg

The box.cfg submodule is used for specifying server configuration parameters.

To view the current configuration, say box.cfg without braces:

tarantool> box.cfg---- checkpoint_count: 2  too_long_threshold: 0.5  slab_alloc_factor: 1.05  memtx_max_tuple_size: 1048576  background: false  <...>...

To set particular parameters, use the following syntax: box.cfg{key = value [, key = value ...]} (further referred to as box.cfg{...} for short). For example:

tarantool> box.cfg{listen = 3301}

Parameters that are not specified in the box.cfg{...} call explicitly will be set to the default values (see below).

If you say box.cfg{} with no parameters, Tarantool applies the following default settings to all the parameters:

tarantool> box.cfg{}tarantool> box.cfg -- sorted in the alphabetic order---- background                   = false  checkpoint_count             = 2  checkpoint_interval          = 3600  checkpoint_wal_threshold     = 1000000000000000000  coredump                     = false  custom_proc_title            = nil  feedback_enabled             = true  feedback_host                = 'https://feedback.tarantool.io'  feedback_interval            = 3600  force_recovery               = false  hot_standby                  = false  instance_uuid                = nil -- generated automatically  io_collect_interval          = nil  iproto_threads               = 1  listen                       = nil  log                          = nil  log_format                   = plain  log_level                    = 5  log_nonblock                 = true  memtx_dir                    = '.'  memtx_max_tuple_size         = 1024 * 1024  memtx_memory                 = 256 * 1024 *1024  memtx_min_tuple_size         = 16  net_msg_max                  = 768  pid_file                     = nil  readahead                    = 16320  read_only                    = false  replicaset_uuid              = nil -- generated automatically  replication                  = nil  replication_anon             = false  replication_connect_timeout  = 30  replication_skip_conflict    = false  replication_sync_lag         = 10  replication_sync_timeout     = 0  replication_timeout          = 1  slab_alloc_factor            = 1.05  snap_io_rate_limit           = nil  sql_cache_size               = 5242880  strip_core                   = true  too_long_threshold           = 0.5  username                     = nil  vinyl_bloom_fpr              = 0.05  vinyl_cache                  = 128 * 1024 * 1024  vinyl_dir                    = '.'  vinyl_max_tuple_size         = 1024 * 1024* 1024 * 1024  vinyl_memory                 = 128 * 1024 * 1024  vinyl_page_size              = 8 * 1024  vinyl_range_size             = nil  vinyl_read_threads           = 1  vinyl_run_count_per_level    = 2  vinyl_run_size_ratio         = 3.5  vinyl_timeout                = 60  vinyl_write_threads          = 4  wal_dir                      = '.'  wal_dir_rescan_delay         = 2  wal_max_size                 = 256 * 1024 * 1024  wal_mode                     = 'write'  worker_pool_threads          = 4  work_dir                     = nil

The first call to box.cfg{...} (with or without parameters) initiates Tarantool's database module box.

box.cfg{...} is also the command that reloads persistent data files into RAM upon restart once we have data.