Re: Dropped TCP connections with 2.6.X kernel

Chris Boot
2006-06-22T11:49:55Z

daveflinux@aim.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're using a 2.6.X kernel,
> and are experiencing intermittent dropped connections when the number
> of concurrent connections exceeds ~ 1000.
>
> Does anybody have any insight into what might be happening here
> and/or troubleshooting techniques
> for isolating the problem.
> What system resources is TCP dependent on?
>
> Many thanks,
> Dave

Are all these connections handled by a single process? If so, you're
probably running into the limit of open file descriptors (1024 usually).
Look at 'help ulimit' to see how to increase the limit.

HTH,
Chris