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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:23:47 +0200
From:      Gareth de Vaux <bsd@lordcow.org>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        luigi@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: ipfw: Too many dynamic rules
Message-ID:  <20100915142347.GA76805@lordcow.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100914115438.GA61728@lordcow.org>
References:  <20100909153902.GA28341@lordcow.org> <20100909162009.GA80375@icarus.home.lan> <20100910114908.GA55978@lordcow.org> <20100914103657.GA57521@lordcow.org> <20100914110302.GA84971@icarus.home.lan> <20100914111200.GA59889@lordcow.org> <20100914113053.GA19053@icarus.home.lan> <20100914115438.GA61728@lordcow.org>

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On Tue 2010-09-14 (13:54), Gareth de Vaux wrote:
> On Tue 2010-09-14 (04:30), Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > Regarding net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout=15000 -- you don't see any
> > improvement at all?  That's a bit strange.  There's probably something
> 
> If there was an improvement it was subtle (I was doing sporadic
> measurements), just that in the end my firewall was getting overloaded
> either way.

Yeah looks like a bit of an improvement but I also wasn't controlling for
end user usage so can't say for sure without rerunning.

Setting net.inet.tcp.fast_finwait2_recycle=1 though seems to have done the
trick, thanx. This is now typical:

$ netstat -n | grep -c FIN_WAIT_2
5

and my server still seems to be serving.



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