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draft-faber-time-wait-avoidance-00
View Related Documents (e.g., documents that replaced or were replaced by the subject I-D, and their derivatives and precursors.) I-D Title: Avoiding the TCP TIME_WAIT state at Busy Servers I-D Status: Expired I-D Intended Status at Publication: None RFC Number: I-D Tracker State: I-D Exists Abstract:
This document describes the problems associated with the accumulation of TCP TIME_WAIT states at a network server, such as a web server, and details two methods for avoiding that accumulation. Servers that have many TCP connections in TIME_WAIT state experience performance degradation, and can collapse. One solution is a TCP modification that causes clients to enter TIME_WAIT state rather than servers. The other is an HTTP modification that allows the client to close the transport connection, maintaining the TIME_WAIT state at the client. The goal of both approaches is ensure that TIME_WAIT states accumu- late at the less loaded endpoint. The document also presents initial performance data from reference implementations of these solutions, which suggest that the modifica- tions improve HTTP connection rates at the server by as much as 50%, and allow servers to operate at small transaction throughputs that they cannot sustain their default configuration.Author(s):
The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid. If you are an author of this Internet-Draft, and if your e-mail address is not correct, then please send your current e-mail address to ietf-action@ietf.org.Joseph Touch
Ted Faber
Wei Yue