Commit d825da2e authored by Rick Jones's avatar Rick Jones Committed by David S. Miller

doc: Tighten-up and clarify description of tcp_fin_timeout

The description for tcp_fin_timeout should be tigher and more clear.

In addition to being tighter, we should make the spelling of the
state name consistent with what utilities report, remove the now
dated reference to 2.2 and put the default in the consistent place.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b146ecd6
...@@ -224,15 +224,14 @@ tcp_fack - BOOLEAN ...@@ -224,15 +224,14 @@ tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled. The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side, application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec. before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server, orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets, forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1, Cf. tcp_max_orphans
because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend Default: 60 seconds
to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
tcp_frto - INTEGER tcp_frto - INTEGER
Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138. Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
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