- From: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 19:52:09 -0600
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@www0.cern.ch>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 6:18 PM 12/20/94, Jeffrey Mogul wrote: > 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). Just a reminder. This issue only really applies to Unix implementations, and not O/S2, VMS, Windows, Windows NT, Mac O/S, VM, or any other non-Unix server and/or TCP/IP implementations not descended from the BSD network kernel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shotton cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu "I am NOT here."
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