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From: toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: 'shutdown' vs. 'close' to free resources?
Keywords: tcp shutdown socket
Message-ID: <239@melpar.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 13:33:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: E-Systems, Falls Church, VA
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We have a problem with a large number of connections in
a short period of time exhausting the resources of the
host processor. I understand that after doing a close it
may be several minutes before the resources used by that
socket are completely freed for reuse and was wondering if
doing a shutdown would make any difference in the time
it takes to release all of the resources?
If anyone has an answer please let me know.
We are running Network Research Corp implemenation of TCP
(called Fusion) on IBM Xenix 2 on the 286.

thanks
Doug Toppin
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