How to reduce the number of TIME WAIT sockets?

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Issue

  • How do I reduce the number of TIME WAIT sockets?

  • A large number of TIME WAIT sockets are existing on the servers. How can they be reduced?
    -The netstat or netstat -an command shows many thousands of connections in TIME_WAIT state, such as below:

    tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.0.0.1:53261  ::ffff:10.0.0.6:50000  TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.0.0.1:52216  ::ffff:10.0.0.6:50000  TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.0.0.1:51684  ::ffff:10.0.0.6:50000  TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:10.0.0.1:50044  ::ffff:10.0.0.6:50000  TIME_WAIT
.......

  • High TIME WAITs while running http, SQL, database, OSE, or any other TCP load tests

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • TCP network connections

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