[imp] lingerd

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:17:55PM -0400, Jon Parise wrote:
> I'd be interested in hearing about anyone's experience with
> lingerd[1], especially on a heavily-loaded IMP machine.
> 

I used to do something similar by front-ending my IMP and
other web-servers with a cache (Squid, and then NetCache)
to offload the TCP processing.  As an advantage, the caches
also serve the images directly without needing to hit Apache.

Also, you can make Solaris very aggressive about timing out
TIME_WAIT connections and such using ndd [1]

The other advantage of reverse proxy caches is that they can
still allow clients to use keep-alives, pipelining, and all the
other HTTP/1.1 goodness.

[1] http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html

Anil