Re: [dev] [surf] many CLOSE_WAIT connections

From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan_AT_gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:25:33 +0100

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 09:54:51 +0100 Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de> wrote:
> > Heyho,
> >
> > I noticed many CLOSE_WAIT connections from surf in the output of `lsof -i -an`
> > after browsing some websites with surf. Before blaming someone or trying to fix
> > it: Is this expected behaviour? Or should it be fixed?
>
> Webkit is doing that. Whatever is going wrong there, I won’t dig into
> the webkit source code. It’s too huge.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>

There's nothing wrong with this at all. Just that in an environment
where clients vastly outnumber servers, it is probably a good idea to
have the clients be the ones to bear the cost of CLOSE_WAIT instead of
the servers.

HTH,
Markus
Received on Thu Dec 26 2013 - 19:25:33 CET