TCP stack throughput

[Corrado Santoro]

Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB) wrote:
> I also noticed that the accept calls seem to go quickly in
> batches of 100-200, then followed by an increasingly long
> delay.
Have you tried "netstat"? You should note many sockets in the FIN_WAIT 
state. So probably the delay you experience is due to the fact that 
there are no more sockets available (in the kernel socket table), so you 
must wait until sockets in FIN_WAIT are finally flushed.

--C.

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