Netstat : TIME_WAIT

Hello,

I wonder why I hace so much time_wait on the same IP both on local adress and foreign adresse (the listener for web server) !

I know what is the TIME_WAIT but I do not understand this :


tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32892         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32893         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32894         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32895         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32896         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32897         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32898         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32899         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32900         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32901         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32902         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32903         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32904         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32905         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32906         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32907         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32908         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32909         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32910         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32913         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32914         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32915         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32916         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32917         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32918         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32919         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32920         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32921         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32922         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32923         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32925         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32926         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32927         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32928         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32929         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32930         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32931         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 65.110.36.147:80            65.110.36.147:32932         TIME_WAIT   -
tcp

Also do you prefer enable Persistent connexion to have less socket open (so less time_wait) or let the default httpd config ?

Generaly I set this like this

KeepAlive On

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 5

What do you think about this ?

Thanks for the answers

Pascal