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 ==================================================================== 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) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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