Re: Dropped TCP connections with 2.6.X kernel

From: Chris Boot
Date: Thu Jun 22 2006 - 07:48:20 EST


daveflinux@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

We're using a 2.6.X kernel,
and are experiencing intermittent dropped connections when the number of concurrent connections exceeds ~ 1000.

Does anybody have any insight into what might be happening here and/or troubleshooting techniques
for isolating the problem.
What system resources is TCP dependent on?

Many thanks,
Dave

Are all these connections handled by a single process? If so, you're probably running into the limit of open file descriptors (1024 usually). Look at 'help ulimit' to see how to increase the limit.

HTH,
Chris

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