[aclug-L] Re: December Aclug Meeting: Regular or Pizza Social?

[Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:39 AM, John Alexander wrote:

> Social, as long as somebody can tell me how the change the default  
> timeout
> for the the CLOSE_WAIT on a network connection!!!!

Depending on the kernel you may be able to set it in:

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/

or perhaps:

/etc/sysctl.conf

However, I believe this is one of those things that isn't easily done  
because really you shouldn't.  I believe the RFCs specify only the  
application that opened the connection can issue a close.  If you are  
seeing lots of open CLOSE_WAIT connections then that is an indication  
of a problem with an application, not the kernel.  The kernel is just  
supposed to wait (I believe the default time out is 12 _hours_).

Chris

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