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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net>
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Subject: TCP idle timeout
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Someone suggested to me that lowering the TCP idle timeout value 
might help my overloaded web server. I notice that most of the connections
to the httpd processes are waiting or dying.

Does this make sense? How would I do this?

Thanks,

Joe