Re: [CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-03-02 Thread John Doe
If I make 1 rapid connections/selects/deconnections to mysql on this server, I get like 1 TW after around 3000, another TW around 6000 and another TW around 9000... That makes 3 TWs only. And they last 60 seconds... In your testing is the source IP the same for all with just

Re: [CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-03-02 Thread John Doe
I spent a bunch of time researching TIME_WAIT on linux and didn't find much useful information. There's a couple kernel parameters to change the settings though the only docs for them that I could find say don't touch them unless you REALLY know what your doing Only things I found are the

Re: [CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-03-02 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: Only things I found are the hardcoded values in include/net/tcp.h: I found these tunable parameters: tcp_tw_recycle tcp_tw_reuse Our issue is on the LAN side: front servers connecting to the dbs. So I wonder if 60s is not too long for the delayed packets problem, when the

[CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-02-27 Thread John Doe
Hi, I was asked to check some TIME_WAITs problems (my boss thinks there should almost never be any) and I bumped into something strange... All of our servers have apparently normal (in my opinion) 60s TIME_WAITs (even if it strangely caps around 14000 in my tests)... But one of them behaves

Re: [CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-02-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
John Doe wrote: Hi, I was asked to check some TIME_WAITs problems (my boss thinks there should almost never be any) and I bumped into something strange... I SHOULD be able to answer this, I was involved when we solved the PANIX TCP-WAIT attack way back when... But the OS has changed

Re: [CentOS] TIME_WAITs...

2009-02-27 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: So, am I correct in thinking that seeing thousands TWs when there was a burst of thousands connections is normal? yes that is normal Any idea why so few TWs on this server? Any conf file I should check? I spent a bunch of time researching TIME_WAIT on linux and didn't find