Question about sockets

[Leonardo Santagostini]

Thanks Eljay !

Yours,
Leonardo

2008/7/27 Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>:
> Hi Leonardo,
>
> The gcc-help forum is not the correct forum for socket and pthread
> questions.  I do not say this to chastise you, rather to inform you that
> faster, more accurate help is likely to come from a more appropriate forum.
>
> That being said...
>
> Your source code is too long.  Could you trim it down to a much smaller
> example that exhibits the problem?
>
> Also, when you close your socket, it does not appear that you first did a
> shutdown of the socket.
>
> man 2 close
> man 2 shutdown
>
> You may want to adjust your socket options, such as linger or timeout.
>
> man 2 setsockopt
>
> The CLOSE_WAIT means the remote connection has finished sending data, and
> your side has not yet done a shutdown and close.
>
> The TIME_WAIT means that both sides have close'd the connection, but the IP
> stack is obliged to wait a prescribed time before taking the connection
> down.  This is normal, and expected.
>
> Also, your communication may be affected by Nagle's algorithm.  In most
> cases, Nagle's algorithm is a good thing.  For certain kinds of IP
> communication (what I'd call "chatty" communication), it can introduce
> undesirable latency.
>
> Sincerely,
> --Eljay
>
>



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Saludos.-
Leonardo Santagostini