[Gllug] DB connection / netstat wierdness

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:01:59PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > If I look at the second app server which I rebooted with prejudice:
> >
> > app02# netstat -t -n -a |grep 5432 | grep 192.168.100.4 | wc -l
> >    0
> 
> Have you waited long enough for the TCP timeout to kick in here (usually 1 
> hour plus IIRC). PG should notice the disconnect after TCP tells it the 
> connection is gone.

You know, I thought I had but it turns out the default keepalive timeout
is 2 hours on Linux. Rather more than is desirable when you're trying to
bring back up an app servers after a crash. I'm going to tune
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time to be 10 minutes instead and 
see how it goes.

Dan.
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