From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 18:25: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A2F113F6 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:24:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03124; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:23:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36CA2854.3AC743E7@seattleu.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:24:20 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Fisher Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open TCP Connections References: <3.0.32.19990216204718.00803a50@shell.lucian.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Fisher wrote: > > My machine has been up for 27 days and it has progressively been getting > slower and slower. The only thing I can attest to this is the growing > number of unclosed tcp connections. When I type netstat -an I see about > 300 lines like this: > > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.4058 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.2893 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.2021 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.3015 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.4907 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.2139 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.2780 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.1706 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.1132 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > tcp 60 0 209.218.208.2.3166 159.138.7.1.6667 CLOSE_WAIT > > I was wondering if there was any way to get rid of these without going > through and finding the program that made the connection since I have > around 200 people connecting and running programs. > > My system is running FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE. Perhaps there is some problem in > the kernel which would cause it to not close some of the connections > correctly? If any one can help I would greatly appreciate it. Just for your information, they are all irc connections. Other than that I have no clue. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu Where do you want to go today? http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message