Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:59:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Message-ID: <199805220259.TAA06672@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 23:09:48 EDT." <19980521230948.A23199@vmunix.com>
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> Hi all.. I have a few questions about large web servers. I've run a > few relatively large web sites on freebsd in the past, but none that > put out more than 300-400,000 objects per day (html+gif..). I've been > looking at a Solaris machine today that's putting out about 2 million > pages a day. The somewhat odd thing is the extraordinary number of > sockets left open in TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2. I roughly understand > what they mean, but we're talking about 3000 entries here (about 400-500 > of which are FIN_WAIT_2, the rest are TIME_WAIT).. So I have ~3000 > sockets in TIME_WAIT/FIN and only about 100 ESTABLISHED. > > Is this normal?? It doesn't seem like it to me. If not, what would be > causing it, and what should I look at tuning on the Slowaris box?? You might be able to tune down the closing delay, but in reality I can't see it as a "real" problem unless the number is growing or you are resource-starved because of it. Of course, the "correct" tuning action would be to replace Solaris with FreeBSD. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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