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[andie]

This post talks about removing the timeout restrictions and about how connections are dropped if they get backlogged.

TCP idle timeouts restrictions have been removed

We’ve removed our idle timeout detection → closing mechanism for TCP connections. It used to serve as a way to detect not-fully-closed-but-dropped connections. Instead, we have properly setup various socket options w/ the kernel to shutdown connections in CLOSE_WAIT or FIN_WAIT states. For the vast majority of our users, this will be a positive change: long-lived connections won’t be closed anymore when there’s no read/write activity happening on them. This is particularly useful for database c…