[158639] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Baranski)
Wed Dec 5 17:30:50 2012
From: "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list@gmail.com>
To: "'Ray Soucy'" <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnOoPwihbPMO8RpQT0izrDJex186EOimdq1XzxNX1Xv+Pw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 17:30:16 -0500
Cc: 'NANOG' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Ray Soucy wrote:
> My question is basically, "how low can you go?"
>
> There seems to be consensus around 20 seconds being safe,
> 15 being a 99% OK, and 10 or less being problematic.
I'm trying to imagine how even 10 could be problematic nowadays. Have you
found people reporting specific issues with 10?
-Terry
