On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > I'm maintaining an unofficial package, apache-lingerd [1]. > It's a new flavour of the official Debian apache source tree.
it's been more than 4 years since i last had to remember all the details surrounding linger... but the main reason apache does linger the way it does is because that is the only portable solution -- SO_LINGER was broken almost everywhere at the time. i'm pretty sure SO_LINGER works in linux kernels as of at least 2.4... and there's also the linux-specific TCP_LINGER2 (see tcp(7)). is it possible that you could use either of these to get the same performance benefit in a manner that could just be part of the standard deb apache-1.3 package? -dean
