It turns out I jumped to conclusions here. They have some kind of (apparently buggy) barcode printing software on this machine. I didn't realize that the idle proc inherits time wait sockets (makes total sense if the owning proc dies.)
So it looks like this software was stuck in some kind of a loop that was spawning procs that were making socket connections then dying very quickly. Thanks the for responses though. On Friday 07 July 2006 07:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does TCPView ever show the System Idle Process with any connections in the > LISTENING or ESTABLISHED state? > > All of the System Idle Process connections listed are in the TIME_WAIT > state - which most probably means that some other process created the > connection and closed it. ( I'd guess something trying to talk to > spoolsv.exe since it's listening on port 6160 ) > > > Has anyone seen anything like this before? > > No, not that many connections in a timed wait state. But whenever a > connection is closed it moves to the TIME_WAIT state and TCPView says it's > owned by [System Process]:0 on my windoze machine. > > HTH, > Lee -- --- John Davison Compass Engineering Group email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) mQGiBEShREkRBAC3apDBDVdXXUqWIhOEtqV5ziZ1POKdHJ0pkHNPFTUi+KCWzmVy qtszWSf0lFit5GyuQk0LhnU+L1nvwu7/sqCnuvK/uHDScgW38FjuPJ2LhLshz2Qw W89lzhJd55PrP4+baVqUeMxhBJPCGTi9a0vx4VZVXFiP+opG1TgFaRsvbwCgu9iO IfdpSLsFMc4g7/WOdeid9wcD/2na7++Gu2cWn97FQHTKZ7aV3cRYV3Bz+h0ywbWG 8bO5VIT28+u0cNJ4BJro2NJT7xK1S03eHKi4C44L00hYQ3XA5lDfOeI6RAJyntyP kpS4UYa2PrwsdXE1tH7FWL1RxI9N/4lf7xVNd37Gnphccoucb/LYQw3g2cgaFM4R j0+0A/9s2SsLTr+DZmnCTpmbRy84QLTp9LHEwByCyH/olUO2StljS6nT1iKuNVTT wBBftgOx03qk7CT70mq6R2VPriUpUGVweLTTuNF+wdWisgZqNbEeB6JnfbaciuEZ JB01vp/srsclsr5XETLN+kSC+dnEBfkgRUWHGU8d2m9BaeKxd7QpSm9obiBEYXZp c29uIDxqb2huZGF2aXNvbkBjb21wYXNzZW5nLmNvbT6IYAQTEQIAIAUCRKFESQIb AwYLCQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEIe4N0PB1ntvmkwAoJIhqQ+xc9LX efi1zRngGtvIj/nVAKCLhdSCNUGg0LdAwbelk0G5PhuRF7kCDQREoUSOEAgAoxat qsUtLv27ePWClRAOJ6ZgphMSFNqsxo39+pWziQCe4jytVOUw2Gs9MeFB3N1OAkXG Maoxv2Z105GNrtmiYSVgsjeVBvs077CITjGfo0PNP56j+26nV+GWGQUChWdxvqO9 QmhZ2SrXfD3iFVG9BBgS1iaqu62OKUDLwaqE8+r0mToaeHipo7BPP6ew+UcHdGU6 OFlEKHwGQ8vTLsqSLuM4WDd9NZ6fW/z9lHcmrnYTMVpHwq61t93MZO4wcvKac9QA KiiZkxs16lGSh/i31Qza8qUUtY0hD1YpPuBuwwysq/7JwS4WZJ7hOLHk2ZVvmiKH B6ivctsJ21kFgvk5mwADBgf/TXdcQfAuN/LzJ0aph2hPeAkQrWaVRZRpd2TbbSaY c+VuprHAALdZPdbPd/ZYDAANyCVvdEOfRsL/7xzNmEgQx/2EUfErE4acYaWo5kd9 0VOpno6d3OlJL2RlNZ6iufs2kn8ZS6mgXPMfHKN85v2OZJ34Gf9VB7xtN6+F5SQK 0B7Wb47wJdApUotqCTg5WXEJ0juAw1fGXUy9u2WqfSq4si5OtvTay/EMFJPsZ49f 0JfdzgJbvmYYuH0ghLeEvIFnEZcpfbVtKUtNAhHLW6Cze27xY4wx+9uSN22q41kh RdGr91g64ST7C/mpXiX80rYRo3Vslgnqpq1fJ2XvpSRYgohJBBgRAgAJBQJEoUSO AhsMAAoJEIe4N0PB1ntvLtUAmwRNrDu1JaYpnfudHCJ6xmO1xhy7AKCq7zA1gmtc oDiShAq5QiKJP7VQSg== =usOt -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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