[xSocket-develop] a bunch of TIME_WAIT sockets sitting around

[Matt R. <ma...@ro...>]

Hello,

I've begun using xSocket, and I'm thankful for the library -- it is
very useful for what we want to accomplish.

Our application sends length prefixed strings over sockets. For each
connection, the server receives one string and sends one string in
response. Then the server closes the connection. I'm using
transactional reads on the server, and it's working well -- better
than anything else I've tried.

However, even though the server does close the connection, a lot of
sockets with TIME_WAIT are showing up in netstat -a | grep SERVERPORT
after the fact. They disappear after a minute or two, but I'm
wondering if there's any way I can get rid of them right away. For
example, should I do a blocking closing operation from within the
onData method, when I'm done with the connection and want to close it?
Obviously, the connection passed to onData is an
INonBlockingConnection, so the close operation would also (presumedly)
be non-blocking, which I'm guessing may be why the sockets stick
around as TIME_WAIT for a bit.

Am I anywhere near home base in my diagnosis and proposed solution? If
not, what would you suggest?

Thanks,
Matt