linux-kernel - Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:19:57 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	James Nichols <jamesnichols3@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: After many hours all outbound connections get stuck in SYN_SENT


On Dec 18 2007 11:45, James Nichols wrote:
>
>> Well you could still blame Java. I am sure that if you program was C,
>> the problem could be narrowed down much easier.
>
>That may very well be true, but I can't rewrite the whole 500K line
>application in C at this point.  Plus, it's a web app which would be
>"fun" to implement in C.

Well I do not require you to do /that/, but you could try adhering to 
the unix philosophy later on that one program should do (ideally) one 
thing, and if the java blob already serves the webpage, then opening 
sockets and doing xyz could probably live in another program.
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