Is there a similar increase in HTTP requests? It sounds to me that your web
server is executing your PHP script, which is making requests into CouchDB.
So an increase in requests would result in an increase of CouchDB requests.
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Keith Gable
A+ Certified Professional
Network+ Certified
No. It's a cron script that I've been using for a while now. PHP is
reporting that fclose() is properly closing the connections, but the
fact that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_count seems to
grow rapidly when the script is running seems to indicate otherwise.
I recently did an
If anyone else comes across this, this seemed to help:
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -i lo -j NOTRACK
iptables -t raw -A OUTPUT -o lo -j NOTRACK
On top of already having a rule for -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT and -A
OUTPUT -j ACCEPT. This way ip_conntrack isn't involved when making
connections to
I'm using iptables on my system to block external access to everything
except for explicit ports (http, https, ssh, etc). I'm not sure how,
but I'm getting “nf_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.” and “TCP:
time wait bucket table overflow” because the number of connections is
past the maximum
