Do they stay in time-wait? That generally indicates there is data in a transfer buffer and the close didn't indicate to flush buffers.
It's an application fault. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: J- P<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 8/16/2014 4:35 PM To: NT<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] TCP connections on Hyper-V guest Hi all, I came across this article as the app were are testing seems to have a bug in it, so mysql opens a connection to apache , does what it needs to do but the tcp connection never releases after time_wait , eventually the connections climb into tens of thousands. http://serverfault.com/questions/200390/windows-2008-server-sp2-64bit-tcp-connections-never-releasing-after-time-wait This a 2012 host, with a 2008r2 guest I see that in 2003 there were registry tweaks to modify the parameters, however those tweaks are ignored 2008- any help on this would be greatly appreciated

