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From: Andrey Dmitrov <andrey.dmitrov@oktetlabs.ru>
To: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>,
	Konstantin Ushakov <kostik@oktetlabs.ru>
Subject: Re: TCP connection will hang in FIN_WAIT1 after closing if zero window is advertised
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:29:16 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541802EC.1060308@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADVnQym0NmF-Cqz=OEpVBmMAe6T-G1jmoq=fbVWtL7_Ny-wn3w@mail.gmail.com>

On 15/09/14 23:43, Neal Cardwell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Andrey Dmitrov
> <andrey.dmitrov@oktetlabs.ru> wrote:
>> It is possible to create a lot of connections in the same manner which will be in FIN_WAIT1 state forever.
> ...
>> After ~10 minutes you will see 500 connections in the FIN_WAIT1 state on the host_A:
>> netstat | grep FIN_WAIT1 | wc -l
>> 500
> Thanks for the report. In your tests, have you ever seen the number of
> such connections exceed net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans?
>
> Can you set net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans to a low value and verify that it
> limits the number of such connections? AFAICT it should.
I tried to set net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans to 100, it limits the 
connections number. As I saw net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans can be exceeded, 
but for a short time. Maximum connections number in FIN_WAIT1 state was 
196, after that it was decreased rather fast to ~100.

Thanks,
Andrey

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-15 16:11 TCP connection will hang in FIN_WAIT1 after closing if zero window is advertised Andrey Dmitrov
2014-09-15 19:43 ` Neal Cardwell
2014-09-16  9:29   ` Andrey Dmitrov [this message]
2014-09-15 23:15 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-15 23:37   ` Yuchung Cheng
2014-09-16 12:49     ` Andrey Dmitrov
2014-09-16  1:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-16  8:37     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-09-16 12:47   ` Andrey Dmitrov
2014-09-16 13:09     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-09-16 14:08       ` Andrey Dmitrov
2014-09-16 15:11       ` Yuchung Cheng
2014-09-16 16:31         ` Neal Cardwell
2014-09-16 17:04           ` Eric Dumazet

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