orphan sockets

[Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>]

 Hi

 Just after digging orphan sockets problem, that was causing "Address 
 already in use" for bind(),i found that in documentation is mentioned:

 tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
         This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP 
 connection,
         when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
         See tcp_retries2 for more details.

         The default value is 7.
         If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
         you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
         may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.


 But all servers i have, i notice that  tcp_orphan_retries = 0 by 
 default, i check in code, and found that:
         if (retries == 0 && alive)
                 retries = 8;
 is a bit confusing, that tcp_orphan_retries = 0, is in fact = 8, or to 
 be more exact is 8 if socket has rto < RTO_MAX. But nothing like 7 
 mentioned in documentation, i guess it is wrong?. My english too bad to 
 edit that, but maybe someone will take a look :-)


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 System administrator
 Denys Fedoryshchenko
 Virtual ISP S.A.L.