On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do the sockets keep working after the 'connection' event handler > returns?
Because the server keeps references to all its connections (until they close). And the (internal) epoll loop keeps a reference to the server, because it is attached and listening. > Given that they do keep working indefinitely, They only keep working until they close. > what must I do to ensure they > get garbage collected once closed? Nothing. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CACmrRmQgMHF_Vp9zn_4PkZXf0pMG5mr3bcf28SvT%2B8HZO3X27w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
