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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:24:20 -0800
From:      Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
To:        Andrew Fisher <admin@lucian.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Open TCP Connections
Message-ID:  <36CA2854.3AC743E7@seattleu.edu>
References:  <3.0.32.19990216204718.00803a50@shell.lucian.net>

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Andrew Fisher wrote:
> 
> My machine has been up for 27 days and it has progressively been getting
> slower and slower.  The only thing I can attest to this is the growing
> number of unclosed tcp connections.  When I type netstat -an I see about
> 300 lines like this:
> 
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.4058     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.2893     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.2021     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.3015     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.4907     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.2139     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.2780     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.1706     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.1132     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp       60      0  209.218.208.2.3166     159.138.7.1.6667       CLOSE_WAIT
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to get rid of these without going
> through and finding the program that made the connection since I have
> around 200 people connecting and running programs.
> 
> My system is running FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE. Perhaps there is some problem in
> the kernel which would cause it to not close some of the connections
> correctly? If any one can help I would greatly appreciate it.

Just for your information, they are all irc connections.  Other than
that I have no clue.

-- 
Eric Hodel
hodeleri@seattleu.edu

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