On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:46 +0000, Nir Dweck wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the tip, it solve my issue. 
> However there is one point I still don't understand.
> Say I used a connection, and returned it to the pool.
> During the time the connection is in the pool, the server sent a FIN message, 
> so the socket changed to CLOSE_WAIT.
> Now when I need to send another request to the same address, I would expect 
> the pool to get that connection, check it and see that it should be closed,

There is no way to find out whether or not a socket needs to be closed
with blocking i/o other than trying to read from it. This is essentially
what the so called stale connection check does.


>  close it (send FIN to the server), create a new connection and return it to 
> me.
> If that was the case then there would have been times where I would see 
> connections in CLOSE_WAIT but when new request appear they should have 
> disappeared.
> What I saw is the number of CLOSE_WAIT sockets raising all the time and when 
> a socket reached that state it was never released.
> 
> What am I missing?

Make sure your code is not leaking connections.

Oleg

> Regards,
> Nir
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:ol...@apache.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:18 PM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: Re: connections left in CLOSE_WAIT state
> 
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 10:33 +0000, Nir Dweck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using httpclient version 4.2.3.
> > I did a split proxy, which receives an HTTP requests, opens its body in 
> > order to log its content and then sends the content in two requests, one 
> > for the local host server and the other to a different server running a 
> > newer version of our software.
> > this is the code I used to create the http client:
> >                         PoolingClientConnectionManager mngr = new 
> > PoolingClientConnectionManager();
> >                         mngr.setMaxTotal(400);
> >                         mngr.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(200);
> >                         m_http = new DefaultHttpClient(mngr);
> >                         
> > m_http.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT, "phytech 
> > proxy");
> >                         
> > m_http.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, 
> > 10000);
> >                         
> > m_http.getParams().setParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, 
> > 5000);
> > 
> > When I need to send a request to the remote host, I take a thread from a 
> > thread pool which will perform the operation asynchronously.
> > The proxy and the old server are running windows and the new server is on a 
> > Linux machine.
> > The problem is I get tones of connections with the remote server which are 
> > stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state and never get released (none with the local host 
> > - I think it is related to the fact the local machine is windows).
> > When I look at the sniffer I don't see any FIN message coming out of my 
> > client, although I set SO_TIMEOUT to 5 seconds and there were more than 5 
> > seconds of inactivity.
> > Any idea what am I doing wrong and how to solve it?
> > Thanks,
> > Nir
> 
> Most likely you need to pro-actively evict stale / idle connections from the 
> connection pool
> 
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.2.x/tutorial/html/connmgmt.html#d5e652
> 
> Oleg 
> 
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