Why are many sockets in CLOSE_WAIT with mod_proxy on httpd?
Issue
- We see many sockets on httpd for connections to our backend proxy destination persist in a
CLOSE_WAIT
state
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
- JBoss Core Services (JBCS) Apache httpd
- Apache httpd
- mod_proxy
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