From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 22 05:32:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11328 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 05:32:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11276; Fri, 22 May 1998 05:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25061; Fri, 22 May 1998 08:40:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980522084000.A25049@vmunix.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 08:40:00 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: dg@root.com Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... References: <19980521230948.A23199@vmunix.com> <199805220437.VAA28329@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <199805220437.VAA28329@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 09:37:44PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The problem is how do you build tools that understand your programs at a deeper semantic level." - James Gosling To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message