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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:22:49 -0800
From:      "matt" <matt-l@pacbell.net>
To:        "Phil Rosenthal" <pr@isprime.com>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Running out of sockets, TIME_WAIT state
Message-ID:  <001901c1616f$e7e14990$6503c23f@XGforce.com>
References:  <000501c160d3$7b7362d0$cb8b5e82@winter>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Rosenthal" <pr@isprime.com>
To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject: Running out of sockets, TIME_WAIT state


> I have the kernel configured with 65536 sockets.  This
system is very fast,
> connected to a very fast network, with a very fast
storage system.  It is
> handling about 5000 connections per second and is
maxing out its 65536
> sockets (because so many are sitting in TIME_WAIT
status).
> This box is pushing ~90 megabit out of a gig-e card
and is only using about
> 50% cpu, but unfortunately it cant answer any more
connections because there
> are no more sockets available.  i tried lowering msl,
but that seems to make
> the system act "wierd" (all the webserver processes
seem to block at the
> same status) -- and i tried upping the sockets to
131072, but that seems to
> cause the system to panic.
> any ideas?
> --Phil
>
>
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