From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 13:22:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A3316A424 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986AD43D1F for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40E81F02D; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:22:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 93F5A6337; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:22:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:22:52 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: "PSI, Mike Smith" Message-ID: <20050615132252.GA63482@stack.nl> References: <06e401c570e2$3f342930$1b321d80@MITRE.ORG> <20050614161717.M8134@odysseus.silby.com> <07c601c571ab$4eb83ad0$1b321d80@MITRE.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07c601c571ab$4eb83ad0$1b321d80@MITRE.ORG> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice needed on running idiotic test for client X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:22:57 -0000 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:08:22AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote: > ----- Original Message -----=20 > > Are the TIME_WAIT sockets building up on the client or the server? > > > > 5.x has some features so that it does not allow too many TIME_WAIT sock= ets > > to build up beyond a certain threshold, but if you're using 4.x we can > > still tweak some sysctl values to achieve the effect you want. > > > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack > > > > >=20 > Seems like there might be some interest in this after all.....so I'll go > back to the list (feel free to chase this topic off if it is actually of > little interest - I won't be offended). >=20 > The buildup of the TIME_WAIT sockets is on the SERVER side. And I am using > FreeBSD 4.7 (with an incredible amount of kernel mods for ISO, QOS, > Air/Ground communications support, etc.) Mods don't affect this problem b= ut > is why I am stuck with FreeBSD 4.7. On FreeBSD 4.x we use 'sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepintvl=3D7500' to speed up the reuse of tcp sockets, because the loadbalancer in front of it handles the connections anyway... Marc --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsCusezjnobFOgrERAu4XAJ9Q3YebHRHWDx7YOzNMYGLvkKmF/ACfQitY hukqIc1DeR4CE7FeXQx1MpE= =O42D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--