Is that on a server? That seems like an excessive amount of time_waits.
Might want to check to make sure that computer is not getting port scanned,
which would cause such a high number.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:13, hard wyrd <hardw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks :) I actually enabled it earlier.
>
> The reason was partly because of these:
>
> #netstat -tan | grep ':3306 ' | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c
>      14 ESTABLISHED
>       1 LISTEN
>  2602 TIME_WAIT
>
> #netstat -tan | grep ':443 ' | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c
>       7 CLOSING
>    140 ESTABLISHED
>      18 FIN_WAIT1
>        1 LISTEN
>      23 SYN_RECV
>    2661 TIME_WAIT
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Jeremiah Bess <jeremiah.b...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> From what I read, it wouldn't hurt anything and worth a shot. I would do
>> some connection/bandwidth testing with it on and off to see if it helps your
>> situation. Why are you considering enabling it?
>>
>>
>> Jeremiah E. Bess
>> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:08, hard wyrd <hardw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry about that :D I was typing in a hurry.
>>>
>>> I meant "Would you enable/set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse ?" :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jeremiah Bess 
>>> <jeremiah.b...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The sentence didn't make sense to me. Are you asking does the word
>>>> "enable" in the file /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse set the "timewait
>>>> - reuse" option of the TCP/IP stack? No, you would use a number 1 to enable
>>>> that feature, and a 0 to disable.
>>>>
>>>> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse
>>>>
>>>> Jeremiah E. Bess
>>>> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:11, hard wyrd <hardw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Would enable set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse ? Why or why not?
>>>>>
>>>>> Your thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> - HW
>>>>>
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