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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:02:08 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TIME_WAIT and linear chain of TCPCBs (was: ...beat a WEB server to death)
Message-ID:  <199511132302.AAA01380@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <199511132037.MAA04226@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 13, 95 12:37:34 pm

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>    In several cases the timers were not properly implemented in 4.4BSD,
> causing certain connections to never timeout. This has been fixed recently
> in FreeBSD. TIME_WAIT waits can still be a problem on busy servers, however.

especially because they do not derive from a bug but from a feature :)

> >* TCPCB caching
> 
>    I implemented PCB hashing in FreeBSD. This was done prior to FreeBSD 2.0.5
> so it was in that release and will be in 2.1 and later releases.

good to know. Thanks

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
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