Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph@twistedmatrix.com> writes:
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:54:46 +0000 (GMT), Jeremy Noetzelman <jjn@kriln.com> wrote:
Personally, when I was running high volume web servers, we'd tune down the keepalive timers to a fairly short interval to keep sockets from getting tied up too long, to prevent resource availability issues that we were seeing.
Just out of curiosity, how does one configure this timeout with apache?
Look at the Timeout and KeepAlive directives in httpd.conf or apache docs. Basically either timeout or max # of requests, and connection will be cut. As for 2.4 kernels, check Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt and tcp_keepalive_* there. Note: if you drop this to short value at tm.com, ssh users will hate you :) --j