On 2015-01-19 10:24, Michael van Elst wrote:
[email protected] writes:
Unfortunately, all TCP connections are now in the TIME_WAIT state.
bash-4.3 # netstat -a -n | grep TIME_WAIT | wc -l
34611
Is there a way to remove it without rebooting the server?
tcpdrop(8)?
It works. But why doesn't drop the kernel it automatically?
TCP connections in TIME_WAIT will expire after some time, usually between
10 and 60 seconds after a connection is closed. The timeout depends on
the distance of the remote machine.
Timeout should not depend on distance, and should actually be (at least)
2*MSS, which would be something in the several minutes range.
But apart from that - yes - the kernel should expire and remove sockets
in TIME_WAIT after a while.
But I might be wrong, and the standards have changed. I'm mostly going
on some rather old RFCs here...
Johnny
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