Re: TCP & curl-loader question

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Gary Fitts <ga...@in...> wrote:

> Hello Robert,
>
> I've run into a problem that seems unrelated to the curl-loader extensions
> I'm building. This occurs whenever I have two or more virtual clients
> running simultaneously. Here's what I see when I look at the TCP traffic
> with Wireshark:
>
> Roughly half the clients proceed normally. The server sends the final
> response of the conversation, the client ACKs this, and then the client
> initiates a FIN-ACK and the server replies with FIN-ACK. That's it, and
> everyone's happy.
>
> But with the rest of the clients, something happens in the middle of the
> conversation, before the client is ready to finish. The server replies to a
> client request, the client ACKs this reply, and then the server unexpectedly
> initiates a FIN-ACK. The client responds with two RST packets, but the
> server doesn't react, and the client times out.
>


Could it be, that your URL_COMPLETION_TIMEOUT value is too short
and you need to increase it?

It may happen, when POST-ing is accompanied by 100-Continue as seen in your
log file.

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