"Is there a way to tune the kernel parameters at the booting time."
Yes. You can place your changes in /etc/sysctl.conf
Another way to do it is to use /etc/rc.local. /etc/rc.local is the last script run during boot. You could place sysctl commands in /etc/rc.local
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