Doh! I meant tcp_tw_reuse. Sorry, paste-o. - Andy
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: experiences with hbase-2492 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 9:59 AM > tcp_tw_recycle did not do what you > needed? > > - Andy > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Friso van > Vollenhoven wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Since I got no replies to my previous message (see > > below), I went ahead and set the tcp_tw_recycle to > true. > > This worked like a charm. The number of sockets in > TIME_WAIT > > went down from many thousands to just a couple > (tens). > > Apparently, once set to true, the recycling happens > quite > > eagerly. Most importantly, the regionservers no longer > shut > > down (which was the goal). I am sharing the info here, > just > > in case it might help someone sometime. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Friso > > > > > >
