I am working on a webserver that tends to become unavailable at the beginning of every month. The current theory is the huge numbers of connections being set up and torn down is seriously contributing to the problem. Looking at a typical, not very busy time, I am seeing over 10K connections in TIME_WAIT status.
This is currently running on Redhat 8.0 and I'm building replacement servers running RHEL 5, but they aren't done yet and they can't be swapped into production until after the 10th of the month. I'm also pushing the web development side to redesign the front page to not use 60+ images. For now, I could use recommendations. There are warnings against reducing the value of net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout, but I'm wondering if reducing it to 30 would be practical. Thoughts? -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
