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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com> on 1996/04/25 14:33:40 UTC

Re: server sluggishness

> 
> > Randy Terbush wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What is the significance of many sockets to port 80 in TIME_WAIT state?
> > > 
> > > I know that is a sketchy question, but would appreciate help interpreting
> > > the netstat -a output.
> > 
> > TIME_WAIT means that a normal TCP close has completed. The spec mandates that
> > the socket must then wait for twice the maximum segment lifetime. The spec
> > says that the MSL is two minutes, but 1 min or 30 seconds are also used.
> > 
> 
> Check out the discussion in T/TCP and HTTP in part 3 of TCP/IP Illustrated
> by illustrous Stevens. Quite a must for all apache developers (Get 1,2,3
> and TCP/IP Networking for Unix :-)
> 
> Dw.

Yes. I've long wanted this set. About a $250.00(US) pile of books...