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

[spx2]

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in thread Socket hang. (Windows or Perl? Solutions?) (Updated)

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.

[ikegami]

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?