Re: surprisingly slow accept/connect cycle time

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:54:05PM -0600, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:

> static void
> listen_or_die (int fd, int backlog)
> {
>   DIE_IF (listen (fd, backlog) != 0);
> 
> }

[...]

>   listen_or_die (accept_fd, 10);

the backlog is 10, so my guess is that the parent does 10+ connection
attempts before the child can accept them so some SYN packets get
dropped --- and you have to wait for TCP to retry hence the delay you
see

a larger backlog would make things seem to go faster, as would
tweaking the TCP timers

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