*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/6/2007 at 4:11 PM Sander Temme wrote: >Yes, this is normal. The operating system places sockets in >TIME_WAIT for a certain period of time (usually two minutes) after >the server has completed a three-way TCP closure handshake. Various >operating systems (you don't tell us what you're using) have >different ways of tuning kernel limits related to how many >connections it'll keep around and for how long. > >If your site is so busy that you run out of resources on your server, >you need more servers to spread the load. I also talk about this at >ApacheCon. I have seen his talks and they are good.. You should try to attend the next apachecon, it will give you a lot of very good info on how Apache works. Also you get to meet some of the people that work on the project. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx