On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Lyle Coder wrote: > Hi, > I have a case where my server accepts connections from clients that > imporperly shit down, causing a large number of file descriptors to remain > in use by my server program (the kernel has not notified me that the remote > client is non existent anymore) > > Can I use TCP_KEEPIDLE for this? You can use SO_KEEPALIVE for this, and optionally tune how it behaves with TCP_KEEPIDLE and friends or the similar global sysctl parameters.. man 7 socket man 7 tcp Regards Henrik - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
