Why am I seeing a "TCP: time wait bucket table overflow" message in my kernel logs?
Issue
- The "
TCP: time wait bucket table overflow" message shows when the kernel is unable to allocate a data structure to put a socket in the TIME_WAIT state.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions)
- Network connection
- Large number of TCP connections opening
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