(The first few paragraphs are background and why the "obvious" solution
won't work for us.)
So the "normal" problem a HTTP server will experience when serving many
small requests to a large number of clients is a pile of connections in
TIME_WAIT. There not great but there are a number of ways to
Looking at the Connector configuration options I'm having trouble
reconciling the description of socket.soLingerOn and connectionLinger [1]
connectionLinger: The number of milliseconds during which the sockets
used by this Connector will linger when they are closed. The default
value is -1 (socket
In tomcat 6 Http11NioProtocol defines a socketCloseDelay field. But as
far as I and grep can tell it is not used anywhere [1]. Is this field
supposed to be doing something?
[1]
$ grep -rni socketCloseDelay *
java/org/apache/coyote/http11/Http11NioProtocol.java:219:private int
socketCloseDela
