Stuff about lots of time_wait sockets open

TIME_WAIT research

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1107568&tstart=3

http://www.communigate.com/cgatepro/Scalability.html#TimeWait

http://forum.configserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=1565

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=62399

http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2004-September/032709.html
--> details about what time_wait procs are/do, consume resources

Difference between file handles and file descriptors
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg01122.html

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-01/msg00073.php

What is the cost?!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803566/what-is-the-cost-of-many-time-wait-on-the-server-side

Ephemeral Ports
http://www.ncftp.com/ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html