Advice needed on running idiotic test for client

[Marc Olzheim]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:08:22AM -0400, PSI, Mike Smith wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > Are the TIME_WAIT sockets building up on the client or the server?
> >
> > 5.x has some features so that it does not allow too many TIME_WAIT sockets
> > to build up beyond a certain threshold, but if you're using 4.x we can
> > still tweak some sysctl values to achieve the effect you want.
> >
> > Mike "Silby" Silbersack
> >
> >
> 
> Seems like there might be some interest in this after all.....so I'll go
> back to the list (feel free to chase this topic off if it is actually of
> little interest - I won't be offended).
> 
> The buildup of the TIME_WAIT sockets is on the SERVER side. And I am using
> FreeBSD 4.7 (with an incredible amount of kernel mods for ISO, QOS,
> Air/Ground communications support, etc.) Mods don't affect this problem but
> is why I am stuck with FreeBSD 4.7.

On FreeBSD 4.x we use 'sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepintvl=7500' to speed up
the reuse of tcp sockets, because the loadbalancer in front of it
handles the connections anyway...

Marc
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