[Catalyst] Test server not releasing socket

[Andreas Marienborg]

On 25. apr. 2006, at 14.06, Will Hawes wrote:

> Will Hawes wrote:
>> Matt S Trout wrote:
>>> Will Hawes wrote:
>>>> FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, Catalyst 5.66:
>>>>
>>>> [Mon Apr 24 17:29:56 2006] [catalyst] [info] Application powered by
>>>> Catalyst 5.66
>>>> Couldn't create daemon: Address already in use at
>>>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Catalyst/Engine/HTTP.pm  
>>>> line 135.
>>>>
>>>> admin at ds645# netstat -p tcp
>>>> Active Internet connections
>>>> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign  
>>>> Address        (state)
>>>> ...
>>>> tcp4       0      0  ds645.3000             XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-nl.2500
>>>> TIME_WAIT
>>> *cough*
>>>
>>> Notice that there's a foreign address there. Whatever that is had  
>>> a connection
>>> to the socket at the time, meaning that when it got suddenly  
>>> closed down it
>>> entered TIME_WAIT until a full double-close was completed.
>>>
>>
>> That's me connecting to the test server via a web browser. I don't  
>> see
>> the problem if the server is running on the same machine as the web
>> browser used to test the app, only (as in this case) when they are on
>> separate machines.
>>
>> Does this mean if there are clients connected to the server, it  
>> will be
>> unable to restart until those clients disconnect/time out? I'd  
>> expected
>> (seemingly wrongly) that the test server would nuke even active
>> connections at shutdown time. Or is that not possible?
>>
>
> Or, phrased differently, is there any way I can prevent this error  
> other
> than restarting the web browser every time I want to restart the test
> server?


Tried with/without keepalive (-k) and/or turned of in the browser  
causing problems?


andreas