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AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsPrathima Agrawal, Moncef Elaoud, Parameswaran Ramanathan, Cormac John Sreenan
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The present invention discloses a method of improving the performance of a server enabled to permit connections to clients to persist for a duration equal to a timer value, such as Web servers utilizing HTTP/1.1. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the server estimates the load on the server and uses the estimate to modify the timer value. The timer value can be chosen to balance the need to increase the throughput as seen by the clients and the server need to service the largest possible number of clients without running out of resources. The timer value can be set to a longer value when the server load is light and a shorter value when the server load is heavy. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the server dynamically selects the largest timer that guarantees that the server does not run out of resources under the current measured load.
A method of improving performance of a server enabled to permit connections to clients to persist for a duration equal to a timer value, the method comprising the steps of:
A server comprising:
A computer readable medium containing executable program instructions for performing a method on a server enabled to permit connections to clients to persist for a duration equal to a timer value, the method comprising the steps of:
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