Re: jdbcthin TIME_WAIT connections

From: <netperf_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:46:59 GMT
Message-ID: <7ahu80$vv4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

TIME_WAIT is an integral, and normal, part of TCP's correctness algorithms. A connection will stay in TIME_WAIT for as much as four minutes, and will then go away. The connection in TIME_WAIT is aready "closed" as far as any applications are concerned, it is just that TCP has to make sure there isn't some housecleaning (old, delayed segments still floating through the network for this connection) to be done. Technically, the side that initiates the close of the connection is the side that keeps its half in TIME_WAIT.

And by todays standards (as defined by web server benchmarking at least), anything in less than five digits of TIME_WAITs is minimal.

rick jones
raj in the cup subdomain of the hp subdomain of com

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