Sockets

[Sandipan Gangopadhyay]

How do I implement timeoutsocket ?
Where can I read about it ?

I have a situation where socket.shutdown() only marginally improves socket
bind release as compared to socket.close()

Thanks

Sandipan

----- Original Message -----
From: "pehr anderson" <pehr at pehr.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Sockets


> For this sort of spider app you might want to try timeoutsocket
> which is an overlay on conventional python sockets that
> causes them to timeout after a specified number of seconds.
>
> Being tied to an IP stack, your computer has a maximum of 65535
> active sockets. With the normal 2 hour timeout for IP sockets,
> your spider probably doesn't take long to fill up this entire space!
> Check this by running netstat on linux. I don't know if windows
> has a diagnostic tool for this...
>
> -pehr
>
>
> David Arnold wrote:
> >
> > -->"Aahz" == Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> writes:
> > In article <8odh9e$qqf$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, <karlsass at my-deja.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >   >>  I have a set of spiders running on my system, The spiders
> >   >> communicate with a urlserver & a processing server via internal
> >   >> sockets. The spiders are the only ones using Inet sockets. Yet
> >   >> after a while of say 1 or 2 spiders, a urlserver and process
> >   >> server running , say for 3 hours, then all of a sudden the system
> >   >> disallows any connections to the outside, eg inet sockets as well
> >   >> as Netscape cannot connect to other web located resources.
> >
> >   Aahz> Yeah, sounds like you're not properly closing down the sockets
> >   Aahz> after you use them.
> >
> > i had a bug yesterday, on WinNT (it was on someone else's system so
> > i'm not sure about this), where using socket.close() does not close
> > the underlying socket, byt socket.shutdown() does.
> >
> > might be worth a go?
> >
> > d
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