From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 6 14:30:54 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from niwun.pair.com (niwun.pair.com [209.68.2.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE29337B419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 78855 invoked by uid 3193); 6 Dec 2001 22:30:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 22:30:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:30:45 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Silbersack X-Sender: To: "Pirzyk, Jim" Cc: Bill Fenner , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Pirzyk, Jim wrote: > We also turn the off here. We have users who need to rsh to each and > every client (around 1000 or so) to update a config and then we run out > of TCP connections since most of them are still in FIN_WAIT (or what > ever the state is). > > I guess what I am saying is that in cases where you recycle TCP > connections on a quick basis, keepalives causes you to run out > of connections prematurly (sic). > > - JimP I think you're getting keepalives confused with the TIME_WAIT state. Keepalives only apply to sockets in the established state, not those in closing states. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message