From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 30 10:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0ED37B405 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust205.tnt1.pasadena.ca.da.uu.net ([63.28.226.205] helo=fire) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15ydbw-0003UY-00; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:27:41 -0800 Message-ID: <001901c1616f$e7e14990$6503c23f@XGforce.com> Reply-To: "matt" From: "matt" To: "Phil Rosenthal" , References: <000501c160d3$7b7362d0$cb8b5e82@winter> Subject: Re: Running out of sockets, TIME_WAIT state Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:22:49 -0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org check the client program which talk to your box. the client may doing something bad ====================================== WWW.XGFORCE.COM The Next Generation Load Balance and Fail Safe Server Clustering Software for the Internet. ====================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Rosenthal" To: 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message