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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:00:27 -0800
From: "Steven Pierce" <pagedev1@speakeasy.net>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] 2 questions


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On 2/6/2007 at 4:11 PM Sander Temme wrote:

>Yes, this is normal.  The operating system places sockets in  
>TIME_WAIT for a certain period of time (usually two minutes) after  
>the server has completed a three-way TCP closure handshake.  Various  
>operating systems (you don't tell us what you're using) have  
>different ways of tuning kernel limits related to how many  
>connections it'll keep around and for how long.
>
>If your site is so busy that you run out of resources on your server,  
>you need more servers to spread the load.  I also talk about this at  
>ApacheCon.

I have seen his talks and they are good..  You should try to attend the
next apachecon, it will give you a lot of very good info on how Apache
works.  Also you get to meet some of the people that work on the
project.


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