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Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:28:36 -0500
On 12/6/12 10:20 AM, Kyrian wrote:
Also, if you are going to hack the kernel to make that change, I urge you to make it part of the sysctl mechanism as well, and to send a patch back to the kernel developers to help out others who might be in a similar situation to you. This is both to help the community, and give you an easier means to tweak the setting as needed in future without a further kernel recompile.
Of course, this whole problem would have gone away years ago, had more folks implemented RFC6013. Or prior recommendations going back 15+ years. Meanwhile, my experience with the Linux kernel team is that about 1/2 of the tweak will go in, and the rest will fall by the wayside. Only about 1/3 of RFC6013 made it into 2.6.32, even though I started feeding them code 6 months before publication.
Current thread:
- RE: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers, (continued)
- RE: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Terry Baranski (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Owen DeLong (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Cyril Bouthors (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Jon Lewis (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Mark Andrews (Dec 05)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Kyrian (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Kyrian (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers William Allen Simpson (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Jean-Francois Mezei (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 06)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Matthew Palmer (Dec 07)
- Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers Ray Soucy (Dec 07)