On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:47:52PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Chris Allen wrote:
>
> > Normally everything works fine - the client can access the database on
> > the server without any problems. However, if a very large number of independent
> > database accesses happen in a very short space of time (say 4000 in 5 seconds)
> > I get the error:
> >
>
> Here is a guess: You are running through all of your ephemeral ports on
> the client system within 2*MSL (60 seconds, IIRC), and then the server
> starts to refuses new connections because it is still in TIME_WAIT for all
> of the socket pairs within the ephemeral port range on your client system.
Many thanks, this is *exactly* what I was looking for. Increased the ports
to 20000 and the problem was solved immediately.
