----- "Tony Anecito" <adanecito@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > When load testing against a system that uses Apache we notice an > extra-ordinary issue where we had quite a few connections. While not > unexpected we were concerned. I ran a manual test against Apache and > discovered sometimes connections would last exactly 30 seconds when > closing them which turned out to be the same setting for WAIT_TIME for > tcpip settings in my windows registry. I noticed the connection issue > when closing connetions for IE 7. I also did not see the same issue > with the latest version of FireFox but then I suspect it does not use > the WAIT_TIME setting to obtain faster disconnect times for tcpip > sockets? Depending on how a connection is closed (I suppose), WAIT_TIME is the state a socket connection will linger in, before the OS allows the port to be reused. > So I am not sure what the issue is if Apache is responding slowly to > socket disconnects. Performance wise when viewing pages this 30 > seconds is not visible to the user but I am concerned about socket > availability. Unless you have KeepAlive Off, and are planning to serve more than 30K connections concurrently, this shouldn't be an issue. > Thanks, > -Tony -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 699 122 96 338 Fax: +43(0) 1 91 333 41 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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