Bug 55556

Summary:	apachebench (ab) doesn't use so_reuseaddr
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Penelope Fudd <issues.apache.org>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	CC:	ylavic.dev
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	MassUpdate
Version:	2.2.15
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Penelope Fudd 2013-09-13 22:39:26 UTC

I've been running the command:

ulimit -n 20010 ; ab -n 20000 -c 20000 http://my.host.com/

And found that after running it a few times, it refuses to run and gives the following error:

apr_socket_connect(): Cannot assign requested address (99)

It would appear that all tcp sockets are in a WAIT state, and can't be reused until the timer expires on some of the sockets.

If the sockets that ab uses were marked with 'SO_REUSEADDR', this problem might go away.

Thanks!

Comment 1 Yann Ylavic 2013-09-14 00:23:02 UTC

Even with SO_REUSEADDR, you can't reuse a TIME_WAITing client's IP:port to connect the same server's IP:port.

On linux, you can do things like "sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1" to kind of ignore TIME_WAIT delays, but your network should better not loose/retransmit packets that could interfere with subsequent connections, that's the purpose of the TIME_WAIT state, however it can be a temporary setting for the duration of the bench...

The best option (though more expensive) is to use multiple ab clients on as much machines or NICs (with "ip route add ... dev NIC").

Comment 2 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:24 UTC

Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

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