[webkit-gtk] 1.4.1 - CLOSE_WAIT

[Marco Peereboom]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:46:31PM -0400, David Hill wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:19:08PM -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> :On 06/24/2011 04:49 PM, David Hill wrote:
> :> When using a browser with WebkitGTk 1.4.1, I get a lot of CLOSE_WAITs
> :> sitting around.  Does Webkit open up sockets itself, or does it solely
> :> use libsoup to do the web connections?
> :
> :This is one of the leftover bits of historical lameness in libsoup. It
> :doesn't pay attention to persistent connections when they're idle. So if
> :the server times out a connection and closes it, it will show up in
> :CLOSE_WAIT on the client for a while. Libsoup will only notice it when
> :either you try to connect to that server again, or if it hits the
> :maximum-number-of-open-connections limit.
> :
> :-- Dan
> 
> It seems if I compile webkit 1.4.1 with --enable-web-sockets=no, the
> CLOSE_WAIT issues go away.

I tried that too however max connections still seems to not be honored.