Why am I seeing a "TCP: time wait bucket table overflow" message in my kernel logs?

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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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