From: Frank van Bortel on
Robert Klemme wrote:
>> I have seen *x systems go down to their knees with many connections,
>> especially because most systems take their time to clean up
>> disconnected sessions.
>> netstat may be of help here - check if you have many waiting
>> (TIME_WAIT).
>
> From what I've seen so far the machine is far from going down because of
> this but I'll try to dig into that.
>

I meant, the machine is no longer capable of handling new
requests - all the indicators you query may indicate the machine
has resources plenty, where in fact it is out of ports (64k max...).

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Frank van Bortel

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