Writing into an AF_UNIX socket takes a long time or fails with "No buffer space available"

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Issue

  • On some of our servers, writing of big amount of data (1 MiB) to an AF_UNIX socket takes extremely long time (2-10 seconds) and then fails with "No buffer space available". I think it's because kernel experiences memory starvation, even though there's a lot of memory available in free.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • SAP IQ (Sybase) database

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