Re: The dreadful CLOSE_WAIT

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 18:28:24 EST


* William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>> Probably best to implement timeouts by hand in your network daemon.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:10:25PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> Of course, this is a bug in the application, but anyway the
> kernel (IMHO) shouldn't allow this.

I suspect the sysctls controlling this, tcp_fin_timeout, tcp_max_orphans,
etc., may be useful to you. Check Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt


-- wli
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