It's running redhat 6.2, and the connections are all to rmserver (RealServer), which runs as it's own daemon, not through inetd. Maybe it's a problem with rmserver? I have 2 clones of this box though, and neither of those have any problems, and they all get the same amount of traffic. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Carlson [mailto:natecars at real-time.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:18 PM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] tcp connections not closing properly > > > 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? > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >