> I'm running into more connection stacking and while I solved my 3 > second delay thanks to F5, i'm still seeing over 9000,10000 > connections on my web servers, all in Time Wait and most of them from > Squid. > > As I continue to look thru config options, kernel params, I noticed this; > > Do not set REUSEADDR on port.. > > And wondered if I'm not using any persistance at all in my > environment, if this is something I should be setting -R First thing to think about: are you using a 2.6s17+ squid? There is a timout parameter somewhere in the kernel config that gets around this TIME_WAIT state for loaded servers. I don't know what it is myself, but digging back in the archives for others optimising heavy-load servers will tell you. Amos
