[hobbit] Large number of TIME_WAITs

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:36:17AM -0500, Gary Baluha wrote:
> Red Hat ES 4 Update 5.
> That's what I normally would think, but it doesn't make any sense that the
> source AND destination are both localhost or the local IP.  It's as though
> the Hobbit server is trying to communicate with itself using network
> sockets.  

It makes perfect sense, actually. Various parts of Hobbit does talk to
the hobbitd daemon - most of the webpages get their data this way, and
all of the network test results are also reported using a network
connection.

TIME_WAIT states aren't evil, just confusing if you don't know what they
are for. They will clear themselves after a few seconds.


Regards,
Henrik