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.  

Jay