On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 09:54:51AM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings. > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 09:54:51 +0100 Markus Teich <markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de> > wrote: > > Heyho, > > > > I noticed many CLOSE_WAIT connections from surf in the output of `lsof -i > > -an` > > after browsing some websites with surf. Before blaming someone or trying to > > fix > > it: Is this expected behaviour? Or should it be fixed? > > Webkit is doing that. Whatever is going wrong there, I won’t dig into > the webkit source code. It’s too huge. > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann > >
There's nothing wrong with this at all. Just that in an environment where clients vastly outnumber servers, it is probably a good idea to have the clients be the ones to bear the cost of CLOSE_WAIT instead of the servers. HTH, Markus
