large numbers of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT state?


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Hi all,

I just set up a beacon central server on Solaris10.  There are large
numbers of sockets stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state involving the beacon
server talking to itself on TCP port 10004.  The number is slowly
growing, at a rate of approximately one socket per 3 minutes (see quick
dirty script output, below).

This only seems to appear on the central server (though I don't have a
Solaris10 client just now).

Thoughts?

		--eli


dart@beacon % while ( 1 )
while? set count = `netstat -an | grep 10004 | grep CLOSE_WAIT | wc -l`
while? echo -n "$count    "
while? date
while? sleep 60
while? end
60    Fri Jul 28 15:21:02 PDT 2006
60    Fri Jul 28 15:22:02 PDT 2006
61    Fri Jul 28 15:23:02 PDT 2006
61    Fri Jul 28 15:24:02 PDT 2006
61    Fri Jul 28 15:25:02 PDT 2006
62    Fri Jul 28 15:26:03 PDT 2006
62    Fri Jul 28 15:27:03 PDT 2006
62    Fri Jul 28 15:28:03 PDT 2006
63    Fri Jul 28 15:29:03 PDT 2006
63    Fri Jul 28 15:30:03 PDT 2006
63    Fri Jul 28 15:31:03 PDT 2006
64    Fri Jul 28 15:32:03 PDT 2006
64    Fri Jul 28 15:33:03 PDT 2006
64    Fri Jul 28 15:34:04 PDT 2006
65    Fri Jul 28 15:35:04 PDT 2006
65    Fri Jul 28 15:36:04 PDT 2006
65    Fri Jul 28 15:37:04 PDT 2006
66    Fri Jul 28 15:38:04 PDT 2006
66    Fri Jul 28 15:39:04 PDT 2006
66    Fri Jul 28 15:40:04 PDT 2006
67    Fri Jul 28 15:41:05 PDT 2006
67    Fri Jul 28 15:42:05 PDT 2006
67    Fri Jul 28 15:43:05 PDT 2006
68    Fri Jul 28 15:44:05 PDT 2006
68    Fri Jul 28 15:45:05 PDT 2006
68    Fri Jul 28 15:46:05 PDT 2006
69    Fri Jul 28 15:47:05 PDT 2006
69    Fri Jul 28 15:48:06 PDT 2006



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ESnet Network Engineering Group                  Fax:    (510) 486-6712
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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