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From: Jan Srzednicki <w@wrzask.pl>
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Subject: Re: connect() returns EADDRINUSE during massive host->host conn rate
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:22:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Jan Srzednicki wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a pair of hosts. One of them performs a massive amount of
>> TCP connections to the other one, all to the same port. This setup
>> mostly works fine, but from time to time (that varies, from once a
>> minute to one a half an hour), the connect(2) syscall fails with 
>> EADDRINUSE. The connection rate tops to 50 connection
> 
> so, what does netstat -aAn show?

How can I get any usable information from netstat? It shows a bunch of
connections, of course, but since connect(2) failed, I have no idea what
local port I was trying to use.

And, what I forgot to mention, it's a SMP box, which could matter in
case of some race condition.

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