Re^2: Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated)

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In Linux, in order to avoid running out of sockets you can use the following as root:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle

I'm not sure how your Linux install is set, just wanted to mention that I once wrote a bot to monitor svn commits and it had this problem and netstat would uncover many

TIME_WAIT

still opened but unused connections.

Here are some docs that describe what tcp_tw_recycle does(Taken from ip-sysctl.txt):

tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0. It should not be changed without advice/request of technical experts.

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Re^3: Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2011 at 19:04 UTC
In Linux, in order to avoid running out of sockets you can use the following as root: Backwards. I'm not running out of sockets in Debian, even though I'm creating sockets 3x faster than one Windows. `/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle` contains a zero. `netstat -a` shows a bajillion sockets in `TIME_WAIT`. Why is it not running out of sockets?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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