Dan,

Thanks in testing that shows my sockets being closed within 5 seconds of
being open instead of the almost 1 minute that I had before.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Fandrich [mailto:dan_at_coneharvesters.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:00 PM
To: 'curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se'
Subject: Re: Running out of sockets

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:47:20PM -0800, Rob Booth wrote:
> Looking at my network statistics I see my sockets end up hanging around
for
> approximately 1 minute from the time of release. What I want to know is,
is
> there a way to force my operating system (Linux - Red Hat) to release
those
> connections as soon as I'm done with them? I'm sure this isn't really a
> libCURL issue, but I thought this would be the best place to get an
answer.

Try
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1
and/or
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1

>>> Dan

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