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. 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