[hobbit] Large number of TIME_WAITs

[Gary Baluha]

On Jan 29, 2008 4:19 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> 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.


Indeed.  Thanks for everyone's input.
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