Re: socket CLOSE

Peter K (pko@paradigm-sa.com)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:45:43 +0200 (GMT+0200)


On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Arvids wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have driven crazy with linux and his broken tcp sockets closing timeouts -
> sockets hung in CLOSE state.I have problem with apache(1.2bx),bind 4.9.5.P-1
> (4.9.4.P-1 works fine),squid 1.1.1-5. All this programs make occasionally
> sockets hung in CLOSE state.Squid release this sockets after many hours,
> but other programs - not - sockets are hung forever(until program restarts).
> I have many many many problems with this(e.g. shortage of file descriptors
> in squid,
> high CPU and memory utilization).I have tried linux 2.0.26 and 2.0.27.Where
> are fault?
> Maybe FreeBSD are free of this problem?:)

Perhaps it is not Linux's fault. I experienced problems under slowaris 2.4
with squid 1.1.5 and BIND 4.9.5-REL to the extend that I had to recompile
squid and specify in the makefile to link against libresolv.so.1 (BIND
4.9.4-REL).

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