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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 08:40:00 -0400
From:      Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2...
Message-ID:  <19980522084000.A25049@vmunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805220437.VAA28329@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 09:37:44PM -0700
References:  <19980521230948.A23199@vmunix.com> <199805220437.VAA28329@implode.root.com>

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On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 09:37:44PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
>    It's normal and required by the TCP specification. FreeBSD will do the
> same thing in the this situation.

Okay. Good to hear. I've never personally seen a FreeBSD machine with
such a high WAIT/ESTAB ratio, so I was curious is this was normal under
high web traffic. :-)  

-Mark

> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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