HTTP Listener (Listen Socket) Information

The following HTTP listener information includes the IP address, port number, number of acceptor threads, and the default virtual server. For tuning purposes, the most important field in the HTTP listener information is the number of acceptor threads.

The following is an example of how the HTTP listeners information appears in perfdump:

ListenSocket ls1:
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Address                   https://0.0.0.0:2014
Acceptor Threads          1
Default Virtual Server    https-test

If you have created multiple HTTP listeners, perfdump displays all of them.

For more information about adding and editing listen sockets, see the Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.14 Administration Guide.

Address

The Address field contains the base address on which this listen socket is listening. A host can have multiple network interfaces and multiple IP addresses. The address contains the IP address and the port number.

If your listen socket listens on all network interfaces for the host machine, the IP part of the address is 0.0.0.0.

Tuning

This setting is tunable when you edit an HTTP listener. If you specify an IP address other than 0.0.0.0, the server makes one less system call per connection. Specify an IP address other than 0.0.0.0 for best possible performance.

Acceptor Threads

Acceptor threads are threads that wait for connections. The threads accept connections and put them in a queue where they are then picked up by worker threads. For more information, see Connection-Handling Overview.

Ideally, you want to have enough acceptor threads so that there is always one available when a user needs one, but few enough so that they do not burden the system. A good rule is to have one acceptor thread per CPU on your system. You can increase this value to about double the number of CPUs if you find indications of TCP/IP listen queue overruns.

Tuning

This setting is tunable when you edit an HTTP listener. The number of acceptor threads defaults to the number of CPUs on your system.

Other HTTP listener settings that affect performance are the size of the send buffer and receive buffer. For more information regarding these buffers, see your operating system documentation.

Tuning

This setting is tunable when you edit an HTTP listener.