The TIME-WAIT State in TCP and Its Effect on Busy Servers

Hosts providing important network services such as HTTP and FTP incur a per-connection memory load from TCP that can adversely affect their connection rate and throughput. The memory requirement is directly tied to the number of connections; caching and other sharing methods will not alleviate it. We

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Theodore Faber, Joseph D. Touch, Wei Yue
• Keywords: Communications, Important Network Services, INFOCOM 1999, Memory Requirement, Per-connection Memory Load