On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:23:03 -0700
"Lance Norskog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Underlying this all, you have a sneaky network performance problem. Your
> successive posts do not reuse a TCP socket. Obvious: re-opening a new socket
> each post takes time. Not obvious: your server has sockets building up in
> TIME_WAIT state. (This means the sockets are shutting down. Having both
> ends agree to close the connection is metaphysically difficult. The TCP/IP
> spec even has a bug in this area.) Sockets building up can use TCP resources
> to run low or may run out. Your kernel configuration may be weak in this
> area.
Good point. and putting my pedantic hat on here, it may not necessarily be
'kernel configuration', but network stack - not sure what OS the OP is using.
B
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