- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 16:18:50 PST
- To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@www0.cern.ch>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I still think that it is better to keep the connection open for a small
amount of time as the server socket will go into TIME_WAIT state when
it is closed and then can't be reused before about 240 seconds
(recommended timeout accorsing to Simon)
This not just Simon's recommendation. This is a MUST (i.e., mandatory)
requirement of RFC1122 (section 4.2.2.13).
And, to clarify: what cannot be reused is the memory allocated to the
connection state record; all other resources are reusable. However, in
most BSD-based systems, this memory usage can be significant (one
mbuf).
-Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 20 December 1994 16:25:19 UTC