On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:
> I have a box that is not properly closing out it's tcp connections.  If I do
> a netstat --inet, it comes up with over 1700 connections in the state CLOSE.
> lsof shows all of these using up my file handles, and I am having trouble
> starting new processes on the box so I have to reboot it.
>
> Does anyone know how I can fix this?  I have 2 machines which are identical
> to this one and they don't have any problems.

What kernel version, and what type of TCP connections?

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