From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266846AbUG1JYs (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:24:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266847AbUG1JYr (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:24:47 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:3722 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266846AbUG1JYp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:24:45 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:24:42 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: raul@pleyades.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The dreadful CLOSE_WAIT Message-ID: <20040728092442.GP2334@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , raul@pleyades.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040727083947.GB31766@DervishD> <20040727160057.GE2334@holomorphy.com> <20040727171025.GA26146@DervishD> <20040727232724.GH2334@holomorphy.com> <20040728090950.GE32254@DervishD> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040728090950.GE32254@DervishD> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:09:50AM +0200, DervishD wrote: > tcp_fin_timeout is of no help here, since the server is not stuck > in FIN_WAIT2, and in addition to this, the connection is not closed, > that is exactly the problem. tcp_max_orphans refer to TCP connections > not attached to any user file handle, but a connection in state > CLOSE_WAIT is still attached to a file handle, to a valid one indeed. > A grep in the kernel sources didn't give any useful guide about > which sysctl parameter will help :(( > Thanks anyway, William :) Maybe tcp_max_orphans can help, don't > know. I'd recommend trying various options and seeing if they help at all. -- wli